Oral cavity & oropharynx
Developmental anomalies
Duplication cyst
Author: Charu Thakral, M.D.
Last author update: 1 January 2013
Last staff update: 9 October 2020
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PubMed Search: Duplication cyst oral cavity
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Definition / general | Case reports | Treatment | Clinical images | Gross images | Microscopic (histologic) imagesCite this page: Thakral C. Duplication cyst. PathologyOutlines.com website. https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/oralcavityduplicationcyst.html. Accessed April 25th, 2024.
Definition / general
- Lined by indigenous mucosa of segment it is duplicating
Case reports
- Newborn with cyst containing gastrointestinal and respiratory epithelium (Arch Pathol Lab Med 1989;113:1301)
- Six infants with cysts of anterior tongue (Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2001;127:1484)
- 7 year old girl with enteric duplication cyst of floor of mouth and base of tongue (Arch Pathol Lab Med 2000;124:614)
Treatment
- Excision; may recur if incompletely excised
Clinical images
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Anterior floor
of the mouth
and base of tongue
Foregut duplication cyst
Gross images
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Foregut duplication cyst
Microscopic (histologic) images
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Forgut duplication cyst of anterior tongue
