Submandibular swelling: A case report with differential diagnosis

Differential diagnosis of submandibular gland swellings

“…Granulomatous lymphadenopathy caused by tuberculosis and sarcoidosis, various cystic entities such as branchial cleft cysts and ranula, primary neoplastic and metastatic tumors, lymphomas, suppurativesialedenitis caused by sialolithiasis should all be evaluated for the differential diagnosis of the submandibular triangle swellings. [8,9] In this study, we classified submandibular gland diseases as tumoral and nontumoral lesions for better assessment (Fig. 1).…”