Diagnostic Challenge of a Deep Minor Salivary Gland Neoplasm

Diagnostic Challenge of a Deep Minor Salivary Gland Neoplasm

Core needle biopsy represents a safe and cheap alternative diagnostic method to open biopsy and fine-needle aspiration cytology in head and neck tumors. There is little evidence in the literature about the use of core needle biopsy in minor salivary gland lesions. This single case report presents a 60-year-old woman with a painless swelling in the soft palate, breathing and swallowing difficult...

Adenoid cystic carcinoma of minor salivary glands: A Diagnostic Challenge

Adenoid cystic carcinoma most often presents a diagnostic and treatment challenge owing to the rarity of occurrence. Most findings reported in literature about adenoid cystic carcinoma are actually based upon studies of small number of patients and there is a dire need for further studies regarding its clinical behavior, treatment modalities and prognosis.

On Minor Salivary Gland Secretion

Oncocytoma of palatal minor salivary gland.

Oncocytoma is a rare benign salivary gland tumor, which mostly occurs in the parotid gland. In this article, we describe an early onset of oncocytoma of minor salivary gland in a 36-year, white male. On clinical examination, we encounter with a painless, granular, sessile mass. After Excisional biopsy, the histopathological features revealed sheets of cells with abundant granular eosinophilic c...

minor salivary gland tumor : a report findings of 25 caces

twenty five cases of minor saliva ry glands tumors which was observedat the department of pathology of university of tehran from 1967 to 1972 are presented and discussed . benign mixed tumor is the most common and the only benign lesion in this series of 75 patient with intraoral salivary gland tumor. there were eleven malignant type and hence about 44% of all the tumor arc malignant and it cor...