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carcinoma
(redirected from Mucoepidermoid carcinoma)

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carcinoma: see neoplasm neoplasm or tumor, tissue composed of cells that grow in an abnormal way. Normal tissue is growth-limited, i.e., cell reproduction is equal to cell death.
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Mucoepidermoid carcinomas may arise from the mucous glands within the wall of the cyst.
Intestinal-type adenocarcinoma must also be pathologically differentiated from mucoepidermoid carcinoma and low-grade adenocarcinoma.
7) Pleomorphic adenoma, which represents approximately 60% of all parotid gland neoplasms, is the most common benign neoplasm, while mucoepidermoid carcinoma accounts for most malignant lesions of the salivary glands.
 
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