DOI: 10.36347/sjmcr.2020.v08i04.004

Pages: 437-439

The sublingual frog or ranula is a sialocele related to mucosal cystic retention secondary to obstruction of the sublingual gland or its duct (more rarely accessory glands). We distinguish the simple and plunging shape. The simple form is limited to the sublingual gland and corresponds to a true epithelial cyst. The anatomical location is specified by imagery: it is located in the floor of the mouth above the mylohyoid muscle and inside the genio-hyoid muscle. The plunging shape corresponds to an extension in the submandibular space by the free edge of the mylohyoid muscle. Most often we visualize an extension of the cyst in the submandibular region, this is what we report in this work which reports the case of a patient who consulted for mass under mandibular and whose diagnosis is posed by imaging, biology and confirmed after surgical exercise by anatompathology.