Author(s)

Takaki Iwagami^1,2, Yoshihiro Morita^1,2,3*, Atsuko Niki-Yonekawa^1,2, Yukiko Kusuyama^1,2, Nobuo Morita^1,4

¹Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Seichokai Hannan Municipal Hospital, Hannan City, Japan.
²Departments of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery II, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Osaka City, Japan.
³Stephenson Cancer Center, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma, USA.
⁴Department of Oral-Maxillofacial Surgery, NS Medical & Healthcare Service General Incorporation Foundation, Wakayama City, Japan.

Nasolabial cysts are uncommonly diagnosed non-odontogenic soft tissue lesions occurring close to the nasal alar region of the face. Patients usually present with a slowly enlarging asymptomatic swelling. Diagnosis is usually made in the early stages because of the esthetic effects. Histologically, the lesion is lined with non-keratinized squamous epithelium or, more frequently, pseudostratified columnar epithelium with goblet cells. These cysts are most often diagnosed in the fourth decade of life. However, we report a case of nasolabial cyst in an 80-year-old woman, and discuss the diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and treatment with reference to the literature.

Nasolabial Cyst, Klestadt Cyst, Pseudostratified Columnar Epithelium, Goblet Cell

Iwagami, T. , Morita, Y. , Niki-Yonekawa, A. , Kusuyama, Y. and Morita, N. (2017) Nasolabial Cyst in an Elderly Patient: Report of a Case and Literature Review. Open Journal of Stomatology, 7, 455-461. doi: 10.4236/ojst.2017.710040.