Pleomorphic adenomas are the most common salivary gland tumours. It is rare to find these tumours in submandibular glands. This case report about a twenty-year old male patient who presented with huge mass on region. The facial disfigurement due tumour was responsible for low self-esteem this young male. treated complete left excision.

Maspin is a protein that belongs to serin protease inhibitor (serpin) superfamily. The purpose of this study was to review the literature concerning the expression of maspin in salivary gland tumours. A literature search was done using MEDLINE, accessed via the National Library of Medicine PubMed interface. Statistical analysis was not done because only seven studies were available in literatur...

INTRODUCTION Salivary gland neoplasms represent the diverse group of tumours encountered by the head and neck surgeons. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study is analysis of 531 patients with parotid gland tumours in patients treated in ENT Department during 1986-2006. We analysed surgical treatment and intraoperative tumour stage. The results of histological diagnosis were presented. RESULTS The f...

The epithelial salivary gland tumours have for many years been categorised according to the 1972 World Health Organisation (WHO) classification. In 1990 a proposed revision of this classification was elaborated. In this study 101 intraoral salivary gland tumours were reclassified accordingly. In 29 of the cases the original histological diagnosis was changed, which in most cases, occurred in th...

Salivary gland tumors constitute 3% of tumors in the body. Salivary gland tumors constitute 4% to 10.80% of all tumors in the head and neck tumors and most of them originate from the parotid gland. Most salivary gland tumors are benign. Basal cell adenocarcinoma is a rare salivary gland tumour. Most appear to be benign clinically. Metastases have occurred in less than 10% of patients. A 58-year...

An endocrine carcinoma of the left parotid salivary gland in a 58-year-old woman is reported. The tumour displayed a large argyrophilic cell-component and at ultrastructural level endocrine-like granules (ELG) were evident. As endocrine-paracrine cells are not normally present in the parotid, it is suggested that the endocrine elements may have been derived from an anomalous differentiation of ...

Basal cell adenoma is a rare entity belonging to group of basaloid tumours.1 It appears as a mass of very slow, progressive growth1,2 whose most common location is the parotid gland, although it can develop in any salivary gland.2,3 Due to the difficulty in differentiating it from other basaloid tumour subtypes of malignant nature, it requires a wide surgical resection and close clinical monito...

Basal cell adenocarcinoma is a rare salivary gland tumour, especially in minor glands. The clinical, histological, and immunohistochemical features of a case involving the palate are described. Formalin fixed, paraffin embedded sections of the tumour were examined in haematoxylin and eosin (H&E) sections and also using immunostaining for cytokeratins 7, 8, 13, 14, 18, 19, vimentin, muscle speci...

AIMS To evaluate cytokeratin (CK) 7/20 expression patterns in salivary gland neoplasia. METHODS AND RESULTS Formalin-fixed paraffin embedded tissue from 153 salivary gland tumours were evaluated for CK7/20 immunoreactivity. The tumours included pleomorphic adenoma (n = 24), myoepithelioma (n = 9), papillary cystadenoma (n = 3), oncocytoma (n = 2), adenoid cystic carcinoma (n = 22), mucoepider...

Introduction: The presence of salivary heterotopic tissue is uncommon and even more rarely neoplasms arise from aberrant salivary gland tissue. The finding of a benign mixed tumour (pleomorphic adenoma) in heterotopic salivary tissue along the anterior border of the sternocleidomastoid muscle, in the upper neck, is extremely rare. Case Report: We present the fourth case in adults patientsof ect...