ArticleJournal of maxillofacial and oral surgery2017
Ranula Decompression Using Stitch and Stab Method: The Aluko Technique.
Article in Journal of maxillofacial and oral surgery, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Treatments to Avoid Ranula Recurrence: A Network Meta-Analysis.Journal of oral pathology & medicine : official publication of the International Association of Oral Pathologists and the American Academy of Oral Pathology · 2025Pooled it
- Sublingual ranulas, is it time for a new classification? A systematic review and meta-analysis.The Journal of laryngology and otology · 2025Pooled it
- An unusual clinical presentation of a plunging ranula-The plunging ranula with extension to the vallecula.Clinical case reports · 2024Article
- Ranula: Modified Micro-Marsupialization: Case Report and Review of Literature.Iranian journal of otorhinolaryngology · 2023Article
- Bleomycin sclerotherapy following doxycycline lavage in the treatment of ranulas: A retrospective analysis and review of the literature.The neuroradiology journal · 2021Review
- Ranula as the First Symptom of HIV Infection in Young Patients.Case reports in pediatrics · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundA ranula is a cystic lesion in the floor of the mouth, formed either as a retention cyst or pseudocyst as a result of extravasation of mucus in the surrounding tissue. It may be treated by micro-marsupialization, marsupialization or excision of lesion with or without the associated salivary gland. Marsupialization is usually achieved by cutting a slit and thereafter stitching the edges such that the epithelium of the exterior becomes continuous with that of the interior of a cyst. A stitch-and-stab technique of achieving patency of the created slit of marsupialized ranula is hereby presented.
methodA stitch and stab technique using four parallel consecutive strokes of the needle with attached polyglactin 910 suture material in alternately opposing directions was employed in treatment of 31 consecutive ranula patients.
results100 % success was achieved using this technique in 31 ranulas.
conclusionThis stitch-and-stab technique for marsupialization has proven to be very successful. It is recommended for use by the general medical community, as it requires the Clinician to possess only minimal surgical skills. Bartholin's cyst can be so treated.
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