Mucocele of the lower lip mucosa

• Main Authors: Tais Frenzel da Rosa (Author), Anna Luisa Tellechea da Silva (Author), Karen Martins Kaiser (Author), Maurício Assunção Pereira (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Faculdade São Leopoldo Mandic, 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Mucocele, also known as mucous extravasation phenomenon, is a pseudocyst of traumatic etiology, in which a minor salivary gland ductruptures. Clinically it can be observed as a tumefaction or bubble; it is flaccid on palpation, asymptomatic, with a smooth surface andvariable size, and with coloring...