Congenital Mucous Retention Cyst of the Anterior Hard Palate! the First Case Report
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Correspondence
Dr. Satya Ranjan Misra,
‘Prasanti’, Kathogola Road, Mangalabag, Cuttack-753001, Odisha, India.
Phone : 9937992558, E-mail : drsatyaranjanmds@gmail.com
Children may be born with birth defects, the most common being oro-facial clefts and fissural cysts. A well circumscribed pedunculated soft tissue growth that occurs congenitally is known as congenital epulis of the newborn or ‘Neuman’s Tumour’ as described in the literature. It is a rare lesion and the diagnosis has to be confirmed histologically. We present a rare case of a 7-year-old child with a congenital growth in the pre-maxillary region of the anterior hard palate clinically diagnosed as congenital epulis however, histologically confirmed as a mucous retention cyst. An elaborate clinical differential diagnosis is discussed. The anterior hard palate is devoid of salivary glands and the presence of a mucous retention cyst in the area is suggestive of ectopic salivary gland tissue and in a child manifesting at birth is probably the first case to be reported in the English literature.