Salivary duct carcinoma is a very rare, highly-malignant epithelial tumour. We present a case of a 75-year-old man with a rapidly- growing salivary duct carcinoma in the parotid gland, of one month's evolution. Histopathologically, salivary duct carcinoma is characterised by its resemblance to ductal carcinoma of the breast. It usually develops aggressively with possibilities of early distant m...

BACKGROUND The decision to proceed with elective neck dissection (END) is based on the probability of finding microscopic disease in a patient without clinical evidence of lymph node metastases. In contrast to squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck, there is currently no standard of care for END in salivary gland carcinoma. This is due in large part to the relatively low incidence of thes...

1. Owens OT, Calcaterra TC. Salivary gland tumors of the lip. Arch Otolaryngol. 1982;108:45-7. 2. Waldron CA, el-Mofty SK, Gnepp DR. Tumors of the intraoral minor salivary glands: a demographic and histologic study of 426 cases. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol. 1988;66:323-33. 3. Yih WY, Kratochvil FJ, Stewart JC. Intraoral minor salivary gland neoplasms: review of 213 cases. J Oral Maxillofac S...

OBJECTIVE This study was performed to clarify factors that might influence short-term side effects occurring within 96 hours after administration of 131I for patients with thyroid carcinoma. METHODS In 71 patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma, short-term side effects including gastrointestinal complaints, salivary gland swelling with pain, change in taste and headache were retrospect...

1. Owens OT, Calcaterra TC. Salivary gland tumors of the lip. Arch Otolaryngol. 1982;108:45-7. 2. Waldron CA, el-Mofty SK, Gnepp DR. Tumors of the intraoral minor salivary glands: a demographic and histologic study of 426 cases. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol. 1988;66:323-33. 3. Yih WY, Kratochvil FJ, Stewart JC. Intraoral minor salivary gland neoplasms: review of 213 cases. J Oral Maxillofac S...

Mucoepidermoid carcinoma is the most common malignant salivary gland tumor, composed of several different cell types, with controversial histogenesis. The aim of this study was to assess the expression of cytokeratins in mucoepidermoid carcinoma, comparing to cytokeratin expression in normal salivary glands, in order to establish a possible correlation between tumor cells immunostaining and muc...

Myoepithelial carcinoma (MC) is an extremely rare neoplasm of salivary gland. It is usually found in parotid gland. Here, we report a rare case of myoepithelial carcinoma of maxillary sinus along with discussion of clinical, histopathological and immunohistochemical characteristics of this rare disease.

Myoepithelial carcinomas are quite infrequent neoplasms and coupled with their diverse morphological appearance are interesting as far as diagnosis and management is concerned. They account for less than 1% of all salivary gland tumors. The variable morphologic appearance of myoepithelial carcinoma leads to a wide differential diagnosis, including primary salivary gland tumors and metastatic tu...

The studies described in this thesis were carried out at the departments of Oral and Contents Chapter 1: General Introduction 9 Chapter 2: Variations in mucins and mucin-associated carbohydrate 25 antigens expression in mucoepidermoid carcinomas Chapter 3: High number of chromosomal copy number aberrations 43 inversely relates to t(11;19)(q21;p13) translocation status in Mucoepidermoid Carcinom...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The goal of this article is to offer an update on the treatment and prognosis of the most common epithelial tumors of the lacrimal gland, report on new pathological entities and offer a review of the classification of lacrimal gland tumors. RECENT FINDINGS Improvements have been made in the understanding of lacrimal gland lesions with the knowledge that lacrimal gland tumors...