鼻腭管囊肿来源

鼻腭管囊肿/切牙管囊肿，是颌骨内最常见的非牙源性囊肿，其来源为切牙管上皮残余。而关于切牙管，教科书上并没有过多的解释。

阅读Cawson‘s essentials of oral pathology and oral medicine的时候看到如下描述：

The nasopalatine duct is an air passage between the mouth and the organ of Jacobson in the nasal septum of many animals, including cats and cattle. Jacobson’s organ is used to sense pheromones and assess the state of sexual readi- ness of potential mates. Humans have no Jacobson’s organ, though the duct forms in embryos and then involutes. Rem- nants of the vestigial duct sometimes persist and occasion- ally give rise to nasopalatine duct cysts.