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Intraoral submucosal lesion on the right side of the floor of the mouth of a 15-years-old girl, diagnosed with cellular neurothekeoma after biopsy.
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A 15-year-old girl presented with a painless submucosal nodule on the anterior right side of the floor of the mouth measuring 0.8 cm in the largest dimension for an unknown duration (Figure 1).
H&E stain, low (a) and high (b) power microscopic views. Intramucosal micronodules, shaped in a characteristic whorled pattern with concentric growth. Cells are epithelioid to spindle shaped with mild cytologic atypia.
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No myxoid matrix was seen and mitotic activity was almost absent (Figure 2).