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CASE REPORT
Cutaneous neck lesion of occult odontogenic origin: search for the tooth
  1. Ronak Ved,
  2. Jonathan Jones,
  3. Nicholas Drage,
  4. Michael Fardy
  1. Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, Cardiff, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Ronak Ved, vedr{at}cf.ac.uk

Summary

The differential diagnosis for inflammatory neck swellings is vast. A swelling of dental origin should be considered because, while rare, they mimic more common causes of neck lumps. We report the case involving a recurrent submandibular swelling in a young female patient that was presumed to be an epidermoid cyst by her general medical practitioner. After 6 months of unsuccessful treatment in the community, an odontogenic source was identified and treated successfully following referral to a local Oral and Maxillofacial department.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2016-217492

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    • Contributors RV contributed to conception and designof the work, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data and manuscript development. JJ contributed to conception and design of the work, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data and manuscript review. ND contributed to analysis and interpretation of data and manuscript review. MF contributed to conception of the work, analysis and interpretation of data and manuscript review.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.