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==Mucoepidermoid carcinoma== | ==Mucoepidermoid carcinoma== | ||
General | ===General=== | ||
*Most common malignant neoplasm of salivary gland. | *Most common malignant neoplasm of salivary gland. | ||
===Microscopic=== | |||
Features: | Features: | ||
*Abundant fluffy cytoplasm - with large mucin | *Abundant fluffy cytoplasm - with large mucin vacuoles - '''key feature'''. | ||
*Nucleus distorted by mucin vacuole. | *Nucleus distorted by mucin vacuole. | ||
*Architecture:<ref>URL: [http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/opaq/PathQuiz/D2A001-PQ01-M.htm http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/opaq/PathQuiz/D2A001-PQ01-M.htm]. Accessed on: 19 October 2010.</ref> | |||
**Cystic - low grade. | |||
**Solid - high grade. | |||
Notes: | |||
*Mucin vacuoles may be rare; in a superficial glance -- it may mimic squamous cell carcinoma. | |||
Images: | Images: | ||
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mucoepidermoid_carcinoma_%282%29_HE_stain.jpg Mucoepidermoid carcinoma 2 (WC)]. | *[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mucoepidermoid_carcinoma_%282%29_HE_stain.jpg Mucoepidermoid carcinoma 2 (WC)]. | ||
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mucoepidermoid_carcinoma_%283%29_HE_stain.jpg Mucoepidermoid carcinoma 3 (WC)]. | *[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mucoepidermoid_carcinoma_%283%29_HE_stain.jpg Mucoepidermoid carcinoma 3 (WC)]. | ||
*[http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/opaq/PathQuiz/D2A001-PQ01-M.htm Mucoepidermoid carcinoma (ouhsc.edu)]. | |||
==Acinic cell adenocarcinoma== | ==Acinic cell adenocarcinoma== | ||