Salivary gland disease is well established as an important HIV associated oral lesion. It manifests as salivary gland swelling involving one or both parotid glands with or without xerostomia. In the context of HIV, the swelling may be due to a wide spectrum of pathological conditions that include reactive or inflammatory disorders, acute and chronic infections, and neoplasms. This paper reviews...

Previous research has shown that salivary gland tumors are rare in the young population. A clinical diagnosis has to be made very carefully because the proportion of malignancies is higher in children than in adults. We present a review of cases of malignant salivary gland carcinoma (SGC) in patients younger than 30 years of age. Data were extracted from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End ...

Introduction: Pleomorphic adenomas are benign neoplasms of salivary glands. The simultaneous homolateral occurrence of these tumors in salivary glands is exceedingly rare.   Case Report: An adult female presenting to our OPD with the swelling of right-sided preauricular and submandibular regions was diagnosed with the pleomorphic adenoma based on fine needle aspiration c...

Papillary cystadenoma lymphomatosum (Warthin tumor, adenolymphoma) is a benign salivary gland tumor that occurs almost exclusively in the parotid gland. It represents 5 to 6% of all salivary gland tumors, and it is the second most common benign parotid neoplasm. Men are affected more often than women, usually in the fifth to seventh decades of life, although this gender proportion is changing. ...

The unusual case is described of a benign parotid gland neoplasm with intermingled sebaceous and lymphoid tissue, synchronous to breast cancer. In the past, the patient had undergone a simple surgical procedure for a cystic parotid gland lesion in that same gland. Secondary neoplasms have only occasionally been reported, since there are few cases for corroborating the strong correlation between...

Background: Salivary gland neoplasms are rare and constitute 3 to 4% of head neck neoplasms. Majority them benign a small percentage malignant tumors. A careful clinical examination judicious investigations help us plan for an optimal surgical management. The aim the study was clinico-epidemiological pattern, histological subtypes, management & postoperative complications salivary neoplasms...

Sialadenoma papilliferum is a rare tumor, primarily of minor salivary gland origin, first described by Abrams and Finck (Cancer 24:1057-63, 1969). It is both an exophytic and endophytic papillary lesion histologically resembling syringocystadenoma papilliferum of sweat gland. The tumor is considered benign although rare recurrent cases have been reported. Three cases of malignant transformation...

Neoplastic lesions of the salivary glands present an interesting subject matter because of their great histologic diversification. The complex features exhibited by many of these neoplasms has aroused considerable speculations concerning their histogenesis, and till date continues to hold the interest of clinicians and pathologists. A total of 75 cases of major salivary gland neoplasms were stu...

Accidental discovery of androgen receptor (AR) expression in high-grade salivary gland cancer led to evaluation of that finding. In this study we evaluated the immunohistochemical expression of AR in a series of 37 formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded malignant salivary gland tumors using two commercially available antibodies. Nuclear immunoreactivity for AR was demonstrated in 3 of 4 salivary duc...

Mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC) is a malignant neoplasms of the salivary glands which is rarely found in childhood. Its incidence rate has been reported to be 0.44 per 100,000.1 Most of them arise from the parotid gland (64 – 80%) while other locations that are less frequent include submandibular gland, sublingual gland, minor salivary glands and lacrimal gland.2 Submandibular gland cancer is ex...