Mucoepidermoid carcinoma is a locally invasive tumor of the major and minor salivary glands. A 29-year-old male patient reported complaint slow-growing, painless, non-ulcerated palatal swelling. On clinical evaluation, swelling appeared benign; hence, complete excision lesion was carried out under general anesthesia, with closure by reconstruction partial-thickness flap. Healing uneventful. The...

Adenosquamous carcinoma (ASC) is a rare malignant tumor in the head and neck region and usually it occurs as a mucosal carcinoma. The World Health Organization classification1 shows this tumor as a variation of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), whereas the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) classification2 categorized it as a salivary gland tumor. In the AFIP guidelines, the occurrence of ...

introduction sialolithiasis is the most common disease of salivary glands. sialography is particularly important for the assessment of the outflow tract and in diagnosing obstructive salivary gland lesions including calculi. case presentation we report on a 38-year-old female with sialolithiasis whom had wharton’s duct perforation, complicating the sialography. she was treated conservatively wi...

Background: Salivary gland tumors are rare head and neck tumors with lymphoepithelial carcinoma (LEC) as a particularly infrequent variant. This study was an evaluation of the incidence of EBV infection in malignant salivary gland tumors with the emphasis on tumor type and geographical area. Methods: Five databases (PubMed, ScienceDirect, Scopus, Web of Science and Cochrane library) were search...

salivary gland involvement is one of the radioiodine therapy complications. salivary gland scintigraphy in quantitative mode can accurately evaluate salivary gland function. methods: salivary gland scintigraphy was performed with tc-99m pertechnetate, at the time of iodine therapy as a basic study and then 3 weeks and 3 months afterwards. ejection fraction (ef) of parotid and submandibular glan...

background and aims. although salivary gland tumors are not very common, early diagnosis and treatment is crucial because of their proximity to vital organs, and therefore, determining the efficacy of new imaging procedures becomes important. this study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of magnetic resonance imaging (mri) and color doppler ultrasonography parameters in the diagnosis and differenti...

Background: Sclerosing polycystic adenosis (SPA) is a rare, recently described, tumorous condition of the major or minor salivary glands that on gross and microscopic evaluation mimics an invasive carcinoma. The histology quite similar to seen in fibrocystic disease, sclerosing tumors breast. It also resembles more diffuse bilaterally occurring dysgenetic disease (PDD) parotid gland. To best ou...

Adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) is a slowly developing malignant tumor of the salivary glands, occurring more commonly in minor glands and rarely parotid glands. It has potential retrograde perineural spread to adjacent structures spaces. Here we report rare case ACC gland extended infratemporal fossa with vascular invasion, reflecting advanced stage disease. After consulting ENT specialists rad...

Epithelial myoepthial carcinoma (EMEC) is rare, low grad tumor with epithelial and myoepithelial components frequent local recurrence, also called glycogen rich adenoma (clear cell pattern), myoepithelioma (spindle plamocytiod patterns), (if only differentiation marked cytologic atypia). Occurs most frequently in the major salivary glands accounts for approximately 1% of all gland neoplasms tha...

background: salivary gland tumors (sgt) are rare lesions with uncertain histopathology. one of the major signaling pathways that participate in the development of several tumors is protein kinase a. in this pathway, glycogen synthase kinase β (gsk3β) and camp responsive element binding protein (creb3) are two genes which are supposed to be down regulated in most human tumors. the expression lev...