Minor Salivary Gland Sialolithiasis: A Clinical Diagnostic Challenge

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...

Minor Salivary Gland Sialolithiasis of the Upper Lip

502 Ann Dermatol Received November 22, 2012, Accepted for publication December 5, 2012 Corresponding author: Bark-Lynn Lew, Department of Dermatology, Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong, 892 Dongnam-ro, Gangdong-gu, Seoul 134-727, Korea. Tel: 82-2-440-7329, Fax: 82-2-4407336, E-mail: [email protected] This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons A...

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.

Minor intraoral salivary gland tumors: a clinical-pathological study

Objective To evaluate the clinical-pathological profile of patients with minor salivary gland neoplasms. Methods A retrospective study of specific cases diagnosed as benign and malignant tumors of the minor salivary glands was performed. The data were collected from medical records of patients seen at a hospital over a period of 15 years. The sample was made up of 37 cases. For the pathologic...

On Minor Salivary Gland Secretion