Open AccessLip Lumps Need not be mucocele
Author(s) -
P S Muthu Subramanian,
P Jayaganesh
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
ip journal of diagnostic pathology and oncology/ip journal of diagnostic pathology and oncology/journal of diagnostic pathology and oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2581-3706
pISSN - 2456-6284
DOI - 10.18231/j.jdpo.2021.068
Subject(s) - mucocele , medicine , histopathological examination , etiology , gold standard (test) , lower lip , upper lip , minor salivary glands , surgical excision , salivary gland , dermatology , pathology , surgery , radiology , anatomy
Lip lesions are the most common oral mucosal lesions. Mucocele is the second most common benign soft tissue masses of the lips only next to infectious etiology. Tumors of the minor salivary glands of the lip were a rare diagnosis made clinically. Excision and histopathological examination must be done for all the lip lumps as this remains the gold standard for the diagnosis. In this article, we discuss three lip lumps which were clinically suspected as mucocoele turned out to be an unexpected diagnosis which only became clear following excision and histological examination.