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Neonatal lingual choristoma with respiratory and gastric epithelium
David L Mandell1, Sarangarajan Ranganathan, Charles D Bluestone
1Department of Pediatric Otolaryngology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. david.mandell@eudoramail.com
Archives of Otolaryngology--Head & Neck Surgery
|November 15, 2002
Abstract:
Lingual choristomas are rare entities that typically present as benign cystic masses that are lined with a variety of heterotopic epithelia. Lingual choristomas that are lined with respiratory and/or gastric or intestinal mucosa are believed to derive from pluripotential cells of the embryonic foregut. We describe a neonate with a lingual cyst that was lined predominantly by respiratory epithelium and focally by gastric foveolar epithelium, and we review the terminology, etiology, and management of lingual cysts of presumed foregut origin.