## 3 Results  
Tables 1 and 2 show the clinical data of oral and cervical LEC. Table 3 shows a summary of clinico-pathological information of both LECs. All oral LECs were asymptomatic lesions, while a few cervical LECs (2/11) presented with features of inflammation such as pain. Of them, 43% and 45% of oral and cervical LECs had occurred by the 3 rd decade of life, although the average ages of occurrence for the two lesions were 40 and 36 years, respectively. Both lesions showed a female prediction. Oral LECs were present from 1 to 36 months at the time of consultation, while patients with cervical LECs waited between 8 days and 3.5 years to consult a clinician with lesions of 2 to 8 centimeters in size. The oral LECs were nodular, soft, or firm on palpation and varied in size from 0.2 to 1.5 centimeters with an average of 0.9 centimeters and were mostly on the floor of the mouth 42% (3), but also on other sites: ventral surface of the tongue (1), buccal mucosa (1), tonsillar fossa (1), and soft palate (1) (Figure 1). A statistical analysis with [PERSON]'s exact test considering \(p<0.05\) as significant revealed that there were no significant differences with respect to age, gender, and the time duration taken to seek a consultation when oral and cervical LEC were compared. However, there were significant differences with respect to the size of the lesion with oral LEC always presenting significantly smaller than cervical LEC (\(p=0.000\)). Invariably, there were statistically significant differences with respect to the site of occurrence with oral LEC showing predilection to the tongue/floor of the mouth and cervical LEC occurring in the region of the parotid or upper part of the neck (\(p=0.000\)). \begin{table}
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**Sex** & \begin{tabular}{c} **Age** \\ **Years** \\ \end{tabular} & **Location** & \begin{tabular}{c} **Duration** \\ **Months** \\ \end{tabular} & \
\begin{tabular}{c} **Size** \\ **cm** \\ \end{tabular} &
\begin{tabular}{c} **Presumptive** \\ **Diagnosis** \\ \end{tabular} \\ \hline M & 27 & Mouth floor & 36 & \(1\times 0.5\) & Lipoma \\ M & 50 & Buccal mucosa & 4 & \(1.5\times 1.5\) & Mucocele \\  & & & & Tumour of the \\ F & 68 & Tonsillar fossa & 8 & \(1.5\times 1.5\) & accessory \\  & & & & salivary glands \\ F & 20 & Ventral tongue & 2 & \(1\times 1\) & Fibroma \\ F & 49 & Mouth floor & 1 & 0.2 \(\times\) 0.2 & Fibro-epithelial \\ M & 42 & Mouth floor & - & 0.5 & Mucocele \\ F & 26 & Soft palate & - & 0.6 & Nodul  
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Table 1: Clinical data of the seven oral LEC. The different presumptive diagnoses proposed by clinicians for oral LECs included muccocele (2), lipoma (1), fibroma (1), fibro-epithelial lesion (1), and tumor of the accessory salivary glands (1). In contrast, the majority of cervical LECs came with a presumptive diagnosis of bronchial cyst (6). However, in two cases the presumptive diagnosis was \begin{table}
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**Sex** & **Age** & **Location** & **Side** & **Duration** & **Size** & **Presumptive Diagnosis** \\ \hline F & 55 & Neck close to & L & 6 & - & Infected bronchial cyst \\  & submandibular region & R & 2 & 4 \(\times\) 3 & Branchial cyst \\ F & 22 & Anterior neck triangle & L & 42 & 8 \(\times\) 5 & Branchial cyst \\ F & 21 & Upper part of the neck & L & 18 & 6 \(\times\) 7 & Branchial cyst \\ F & 30 & Neck & L & 1.5 & 4 \(\times\) 3 & Branchial cyst \\ M & 21 & Neck & L & 10 & 3 \(\times\) 3 & - \\ F & 15 & Neck & L & 6 & 6 \(\times\) 5 & Branchial cyst/cystic hygroma \\ M & 27 & Neck & L & 6 & 6 \(\times\) 5 & Systein lesion \\ F & 56 & Parotid & R & - & - & Lymphoma, parapharyngeal \\ M & 39 & Upper part of the neck & L & - & - & tumour \\ M & 61 & Parotid & R & 4 & 2 \(\times\) 3 & Parotid tumour/pleomorphic \\ F & 50 & Neck & L & 0.2 & 4 \(\times\) 3 & Infected cyst \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 2: Clinical data of the \(11\) cervical LEC. Figure 1: Clinical view of a palatal lympho-epithelial cyst. neoplas, such as pleomorphic adenoma and lymphoma.