The smallest of the major salivary glands, the sublingual gland is unusually the origin of a salivary neoplasm. When it is, however, the odds are greatly in favor of the neoplasm's being malignant. The gland is also uniquely associated with two nonneoplastic disorders: The cervical ranula and herniation through the mylohyoid muscle
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