Zhang Y, Wang L, Liu K. Diverticulum of the buccal mucosa: A case report. World J Clin Cases 2020; 8(4): 820-824 [PMID: 32149066 DOI: 10.12998/wjcc.v8.i4.820]
Corresponding Author of This Article
Ke Liu, PhD, Associate Professor, The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology (Hubei-MOST) & Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, 237 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, Hubei Province, China. liuke.1999@whu.edu.cn
Research Domain of This Article
Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine
Article-Type of This Article
Case Report
Open-Access Policy of This Article
This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
World J Clin Cases. Feb 26, 2020; 8(4): 820-824 Published online Feb 26, 2020. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v8.i4.820
Diverticulum of the buccal mucosa: A case report
Yu Zhang, Lin Wang, Ke Liu
Yu Zhang, Lin Wang, Ke Liu, The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology (Hubei-MOST) & Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, Hubei Province, China
Author contributions: Zhang Y collected basic information from the patient and image and operation data, and wrote the main content of the manuscript; Wang L revised the language of the manuscript and helped write it; Liu K made a clinical diagnosis of the patient’s condition and performed surgery on the patient; Liu K provided guidance on the writing of the manuscript.
Informed consent statement: Informed written consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this report and any accompanying images.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
CARE Checklist (2016) statement: The authors have read the CARE Checklist (2016), and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the CARE Checklist (2016).
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Ke Liu, PhD, Associate Professor, The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology (Hubei-MOST) & Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, 237 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, Hubei Province, China. liuke.1999@whu.edu.cn
Received: November 21, 2019 Peer-review started: November 21, 2019 First decision: December 12, 2019 Revised: January 5, 2020 Accepted: January 11, 2020 Article in press: January 11, 2020 Published online: February 26, 2020 Processing time: 97 Days and 2.7 Hours
Abstract
BACKGROUND
A diverticulum is the medical or biological term for outpouching of a hollow structure in the body. It particularly occurs in the digestive system, but rarely occurs in the oral mucosa.
CASE SUMMARY
This report describes a rare case of diverticulum presenting in the buccal mucosa in a 44-year-old woman that was initially diagnosed in Stomatology Hospital, Wuhan University. We made our diagnosis under the guidance of imaging data, and the patient underwent surgical resection.
CONCLUSION
This report is the first confirmed case of buccal mucosal diverticulum. in addition, we elucidated that in general, idiopathic developmental abnormalities caused by succinate muscle defects are responsible for diverticulum development.
Core tip: Oral mucosal diverticulum is rare, and diverticulum of digestive tract has not been previously reported. Partial defects of the muscle layer around the diverticulum were also observed during the operation, and the diverticulum was located at the fragile edge of the anatomy of the muscle layer. After the operation, the patient’s food impaction symptoms were resolved, and have not relapsed.
