PMC3177381_01
Intraoral swelling on labial mucosa.
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F1
It was solitary, lobulated soft mass, 2X3 cm in size, with smooth margins and was not fixed to underlying deeper structures (Figure 1).
Intraoral growth on buccal mucosa.
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F2
Case 2 was a 52 years male patient, who complained of slowly growing mass in the buccal mucosa since one and half years ago, which was non-pulsatile and non-tender in nature, 2.5X3.5 cm in size with smoother margins (Figure 2).
Intraoral swelling seen on buccal mucosa.
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F3
Case 3 was a 55 years old male complained of painless doughy swelling, growing very slowly in the buccal mucosa for the last four years, which was about 2.5x1.5 cm in size, yellowish in colour, compressible, fluctuant, well localized and pedunculated (Figure 3).
Photomicrograph showing mature adipocytes having nucleus placed to periphery with intervening connective tissue stroma (x10).
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F4
Fine needle aspiration cytology was performed in this case and aspirated fluid showed fat cells (Figure 4).
Fine needle aspiration cytology showing adipocytes (x40).
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F5
Microscopically, these tissues revealed sheets of mature adipocytes containing clear cytoplasm and eccentric nucleus, with no evidence of cellular atypia or metaplasia (Figure 5).