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Lingual swelling in a boy aged 4 days due to a foregut duplication cyst
  1. Kerri Munn-Bookless1,
  2. Piers Osborne2
  1. 1 Royal Belfast Children's Hospital, Belfast, UK
  2. 2 Northern Health and Social Care Trust, Antrim, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Kerri Munn-Bookless; kerri.munnbookless{at}belfasttrust.hscni.net

https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2024-327574

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    A boy aged 4 days was assessed in urgent outpatient care due to feeding difficulties and parental concerns regarding a ‘lump’ on his tongue. His parents described very slow feeding, which improved when using on a faster flow teat. The baby was clinically well with no dysmorphic features. Antenatal scans were normal. Examination of the oral cavity revealed a central soft spherical lesion of the tongue that transilluminated (figure 1 …

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    • Contributors KM-B wrote the article. Images were selected by PO. Both agreed on the content of the article. PO is the guarantor.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.