Buccal mucosal swellings are more often noticed in day to day practice. Routinely they are associated with buccal space, buccal fat pad, buccinator muscle and minor/major salivary glands etc. Certain common oral swelling presenting in this region leads us to a prompting concern about the tumors. A 40 year old female patient reported with a chief complaint of swelling in left cheek region since one years. A diffuse swelling approximately 2.5 × 1 cm in the buccal mucosa was noticed. With this a working diagnosis of mucocele of minor salivary gland was made. Lesion was excised under local anesthesia. The histopathological picture of the lesion was slow grade mucoepidermoid carcinoma of minor salivary gland which was unexpected and therefore probably the consideration of malignancy in the differential diagnosis even though the clinical presentation is not in favor is a take home message.
Key words: Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma, mucosal swellings           .

Received: 17 May, 2019                                   Revised: 22 May, 2019                              Accepted: 27 May, 2019

Corresponding Author: Dr. Sukhvinder Singh Rana, Senior Resident, Dr. Rajendar Prasad Government Medical College (RPGMC) Tanda, Himachal Pradesh, India
This article may be cited as: Rana SS, Ohri N. Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma of Buccal Mucosa- A Case Report. Int J Res Health Allied Sci 2019; 5(3):9-11.