We retrospectively reviewed published reports, using PubMed, from 1966 to 2006. The keywords used for the search included ‘adenoid cystic’, ‘adenoid cystic-like’, ‘basaloid’ and ‘basal cell carcinoma’ of the prostate. All languages were included in the search. Available clinical information, management, outcome and follow-up data were abstracted. The clinicopathological and immunohistochemical ...

Adenoid cystic carcinoma is a malignant neoplasm arising from the salivary glands. The most striking feature of this tumor is that it is locally aggressive, with perineural invasion, tendency to metastasize, high recurrence rates. The parotid gland is the most commonly affected site in the head and neck region, tongue being relatively rare. The current study presents a rare case of 6 years old ...

We report an extraordinary case of collision tumor consisting of a lung adenocarcinoma and a metastatic adenoid cystic carcinoma in a 56 year-old man. He was diagnosed with a pulmonary nodule 11 years after treatment of an adenoid cystic carcinoma of the right maxillary sinus. A non-small cell carcinoma was observed when a transbronchial biopsy was performed. The other component of the nodule w...

Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the lacrimal gland is a relatively rare disease. Only two cases, a man of 61 and a woman of 54 were seen in our clinic from 1962-1981. They presented histopathology of the cribriform pattern characteristic of adenoid cystic carcinoma. The lesion in the male patient belonged to the solid type and was mainly composed of solid nests. It is emphasized that radiotherapy i...

BACKGROUND High-grade transformation or dedifferentiation in carcinoma is progression of a low-grade malignant neoplasm to a high-grade carcinoma or poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma. This is rarely observed in adenoid cystic carcinoma of the salivary glands. CASE REPORT A 39 year-old woman presented with a painless mass at the left submandibulary region that had been growing slowly for 5 ...

Malignant tumors arising from trachea are not common. This paper presents an example of primary tracheal adenoid cystic carcinoma treated by surgical resection with good prognosis. A 46-year-old woman presented with a short history of dyspnea. Five months before the onset of dyspnea, the patient had mild wheezing. She had no history of smoking. Physical examination suggested primary tracheal tu...

AIM To investigate the role of human papillomavirus (HPV) in adenoid cystic carcinoma of the uterine cervix. METHODS Eleven archival, paraffin wax embedded specimens were analysed by non-isotopic in situ hybridisation (NISH) for HPV types 6, 11, 16, 18, 31, and 33 using digoxigenin labelled probes. The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was carried out on each of the cases using consensus primer...

Histologic variants of prostatic carcinoma are readily recognized. In this report, we describe a rare variant, adenoid cystic carcinoma, in a 75-year-old man previously diagnosed to have transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder. The diagnosis of adenoid cystic carcinoma was made by the characteristic microscopic features of the tumor morphologically and immunohistochemically. Two mont...

Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the peripheral lung is a rare entity. We recently encountered a patient with adenoid cystic carcinoma. A 75-year-old woman showed a nodular lesion with 10 mm in diameter in the right upper lung field on chest radiography. The diagnosis was unclear, but lung cancer could not be ruled out. Thoracoscopic biopsy was performed, and intraoperative pathological diagnosis re...

Adenoid cystic carcinoma is the most frequent malignant neoplasm of minor salivary glands (76.5%); it is clinically characterized by slow growth, and its most frequent localization is the hard palate. Histopathologically it presents three patterns, cribriform, tubular and solid; the solid type is related to a poor prognostic contrary to the cribriform type, which has a better prognosis. Surgica...