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===Microscopic===
===Microscopic===
Features:
Features:<ref>URL: [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1076717-workup http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1076717-workup]. Accessed on: 6 March 2012.</ref>
*Ball of mucous.
*Granulation tissue-like and pseudocyst-like.
**Granulation tissue-like:
***Fibroblasts.
***Small caliber blood vessels.
***Histocytes.
***Neutrophils.
**Pseudocyst:
***No epithelial lining.
***Poorly circumscribed.
*Pale pink extracellular material (mucous) - '''key feature'''.


Images:
Images:
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mucocele_of_lower_lip_%281%29.JPG Mucocele - low mag. (WC)].
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mucocele_of_lower_lip_%281%29.JPG Mucocele - low mag. (WC)].
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mucocele_of_lower_lip_%282%29.JPG Mucocele - high mag. (WC)].
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mucocele_of_lower_lip_%282%29.JPG Mucocele - high mag. (WC)].
*[http://dermatlas.med.jhmi.edu/derm/indexDisplay.cfm?ImageID=292590975 Mucocele (dermatlas.med.jhmi.edu)].


==Pleomorphic adenoma==
==Pleomorphic adenoma==
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