Neonatal cystic choristoma in submandibular salivary gland simulating cystic hygroma
Tang, T.T.; Glicklich, M.; Siegesmund, K.A.; Oechler, H.W.; McCreadie, S.R.
Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 103(10): 536-539
1979
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-9985 PMID: 582369 Document Number: 149505
A congenital cystic malformation occurred in the submandibular salivary gland of a neonate. The embryogenesis and differential diagnosis are discussed. Since it seems to be a product of endodermal heterotopic differentiation or entrapment of foregut epithelial rests in the submandibular gland, it is classified as a cystic choristoma.