UOC di Chirurgia Pediatrica, Azienda Ospedaliera Materno Infantile
OIRM-S Anna, Pzza Polonia 94, 10126 Turin, Italy. salvo_gar@yahoo.it
OBJECTIVE: Many authors consider surgical therapy of pediatric ranula and
intraoral mucocele as the election treatment. Recently, an intracystic
sclerosing injection with OK-432 has been proposed as a ranula primary
treatment. This preliminary study evaluates the effectiveness of the use of
Nickel Gluconate-Mercurius Heel-Potentised Swine Organ Preparations as the
primary treatment of pediatric ranula and intraoral mucocele. METHODS: Eighteen
children (9 ranulas, 9 labial mucoceles, 2 lingual mucoceles) were treated with
oral administration of Nickel Gluconate-Mercurius Heel-Potentised Swine Organ
Preparations D10/D30/D200. RESULTS: Eighty-nine percent ranulas (8 out of 9),
67% labial mucoceles (6 out of 9) completely responded to the therapy. One
ranula, that interrupted therapy after only 4 weeks, was subjected to
marsupialization in another hospital. A double mucocele case partially responded
(one of the two was extinguished), another case incompletely responded,
decreasing the size beyond 50%, and just one case, changing volume, resisted the
therapy. Lingual mucocele healed at once. Blandin-Nuhn polypoid congenital
mucocele responded to the treatment with gradual reabsorption, permitting
surgical excision of the atrophic polypoid remnant, without removing glands of
origin. No solved case showed recurrence (follow up range: 4-32 months).
CONCLUSION: Homotoxicological therapy with Nickel Gluconate-Mercurius
Heel-Potentised Swine Organ Preparations D10/D30/D200 is an effective primary
treatment of pediatric ranula and intraoral mucocele.