Mucocele

• Involves minor salivary glands
• Painless, translucent, bluish, may alternately enlarge and shrink
• Most commonly lower lip
• Traumatic in origin
• Frequently recurs
• Treatment: excision

Essentially similar to Ranula which involved the major salivary glands
*mnemonic: at the sight of some minor mucus, the major ran**

CHLA Board Review 2005