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| Year : 2006 | Volume
: 11
| Issue : 2 | Page : 97-98 |
Neonatal lingual gastric duplication cyst: A rare case report
KV Satish Kumar, Manoj Joshi, Naveen Vishwanath, Tanveer Akhtar, Sanjay N Oak
Department of Paediatric Surgery, BYL Nair Hospital and T. N. Medical College, Mumbai, India
Correspondence Address:
Sanjay N Oak
A / 11, 404, Neelam Nagar (Phase II), Mulund (E), Mumbai - 400 081
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0971-9261.25933
Enteric duplication cysts occurring in tongue is rare. They present with feeding difficulty and rarely with respiratory distress. A one day old male baby presented with swelling in the oral cavity, interfering with feeding and inability to close the mouth. Under general anesthesia, subtotal excision was done and histopathology was gastric duplication cyst of fundic variety.
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