Two Cases of Nasopalatine Duct Cyst with Nasal Stuffiness

Kang, Jun Myung; Kim, Byung Guk; Park, Sung Chun; Hyun, Do Jin

doi:10.35420/jcohns.2007.18.2.233

J Clin Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2007; 18(2):233-236

pISSN: 1225-0244, eISSN: 2713-833X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35420/jcohns.2007.18.2.233

증례

코막힘이 주증상인 코입천장관낭 2예

강준명¹, 김병국¹^,^*, 박성천¹, 현도진¹

Two Cases of Nasopalatine Duct Cyst with Nasal Stuffiness

Jun Myung Kang¹, Byung Guk Kim¹^,^*, Sung Chun Park¹, Do Jin Hyun¹

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¹가톨릭대학교 의과대학 이비인후과학교실

¹Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

^*교신저자: 김병국, 130-709 서울 동대문구 전농2동 가톨릭대학교 의과대학 이비인후과학교실 전화： (02) 958-2145·전송： (02) 959-5375 E-mail： coolkim@chol.com

© Copyright 2007 The Busan, Ulsan, Gyeoungnam Branch of Korean Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Received: Oct 04, 2007; Accepted: Oct 30, 2007

Published Online: May 31, 2020

ABSTRACT

The nasopalatine duct cyst (NPDC) is the most common cyst of nonodontogenic origin in the maxilla. In most NPDC cases, patients are not aware of any marked clinical symptom and NPDC is therefore usually detected during routine clinical or radiographical examination. In large cysts, swelling is present at the bottom of the anterior nasal cavity as well as at the midline of the palate. The treatment of choice is enucleation of cyst. We experienced two cases of nasopalatine duct cyst with nasal stuffiness symptom and elevated nasal floor, which were confirmed to be a NPDC after surgical treatment. We report this cases with a review of literatures. (J Clinical Otolaryngol 2007;18:233–236)

Keywords: 코입천장낭종; 코막힘

Keywords: Nasopalatine duct cyst; Nasal obstruction