Abstract

SILVA, Marceli Moço; CASTRO, Alvimar Lima de; SOUBHIA, Ana Maria Pires  and  CRIVELINI, Marcelo Macedo. Lymphoepithelial Cyst in Jugal Mucosa. Int. J. Odontostomat. [online]. 2011, vol.5, n.1, pp. 55-58. ISSN 0718-381X.  doi: 10.4067/S0718-381X2011000100008.

Mouth lymphoepithelial cyst is rare, with few cases reported in literature. The aim of this article is to describe a clinical case, focusing on clinical and diagnostic aspects, treatment and prognosis. The lesion was one year old and had developed as a fibrous nodule in the jugal mucosa of a 71-year-old leucoderma patient. Considering focal inflammatory fibrous hyperplasia, fibroma and mucocele as differential diagnosis, excisional biopsy was carried out. A cystic cavity limited by pseudostratified epithelium without projections into the conjunctive tissue, with lymphoid tissue within, was microscopically identified. Without postoperative adverse events, the one-year clinical followup confirmed the favorable prognosis of this kind of lesion.

Keywords : non-odontogenic cysts; lymphoepithelial cyst; ectopic lymphoid tissue.