%0 Journal Article %T Efficiency of Ultrasonography in Swellings of Orofacial Region %A Abhishek A Talathi %A Avadhut Kamble %A Harkanwal Preet Singh %A Pradeep Dilip Taide %A Sameer Ramesh Zope %A Selabh Thakur %A Vaibhav Kumar %J Archive of "Nigerian Journal of Surgery : Official Publication of the Nigerian Surgical Research Society". %D 2018 %R 10.4103/njs.NJS_38_17 %X Ultrasonography (USG) is found to be important in identifying various soft-tissue pathologies in the orofacial region. Therefore, its features should be studied and documented in these lesions so that a more appropriate provisional diagnosis can be made %K Anechoic %K hyperechoic %K hypoechoic %K ultrasonography %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6158989/