title: [Diagnostic image (347). A man with a swelling underneath his tongue].
abstract: A 23-year-old man presented with a painless, growing swelling underneath his tongue due to a ranula, i.e. accumulation of saliva in the drainage canal of the sublingual salivary gland.
authors.affiliation: Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum, afd. KNO, Leiden.
authors.forename: R A L
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Schoop
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Sassen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004322:Drainage; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011900:Ranula / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D012466:Salivary Gland Diseases / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D013361:Sublingual Gland / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome