epithelial myoepithelial carcinoma is a rare biphasic low grade neoplasm of salivary glands; it most commonly occurs in the parotid gland but can also arise in minor salivary glands. here a case of 58-year-old female presented with left cheek swelling of one-year duration. ct scan revealed a localized submandibular salivary gland tumor mass not involving surrounding tissues. histological examin...

introduction: salivary gland tumors (sgts) are important parts of human neoplasms. the most common sgt is pleomorphic adenoma and the most common malignant sgts are mucoepidermoid carcinoma and adenoid cystic carcinoma (acc). metastasis-associated genes 1 (mta1), a member of the nucleosome remodeling and histone deacetylation complex, is one newly discovered gene which recruits histone deacetyl...

Overall salivary gland tumours are rare, comprising of less than 3% of overall head and neck neoplasms. Parotid gland is the most common site for the benign salivary gland neoplasm. Usually they are painless slow growing lesion involving the superficial or deep part of the gland and can severely affect the facial nerve functioning. Treatment mainly comprises of surgical excision with preservati...

Myoepithelioma is a rare neoplasm of the salivary glands, generally occurring in the parotid gland and less often in the minor accessory salivary gland of the oral cavity. The histological appearance includes solid, myxoid and reticular growth patterns. Vimentin and S-100 protein are very sensitive but non-specific immunohistochemical markers of neoplastic myoepithelium. Conservative surgery is...

Basal cell adenoma is an uncommon benign salivary gland neoplasm, presenting isomorphic basaloid cells with a prominent basal cell layer. Taking into account that basal cell adenomas represent 1% of all salivary gland tumors, being the majority of cases in the parotid glands, the goal of this paper is to report a case of basal cell adenoma of the upper lip arising from minor salivary gland.

OBJECTIVE To delineate the spectrum of salivary gland tumors in our setup. SETTING The Aga Khan University Medical Centre, Karachi. METHOD Tumors were analysed considering histological type, age and sex of the patients and anatomic location. The diagnosis of individual tumours was based on the 1991 World Health Organisation Classification. RESULTS During the span of eight years (1991-1998...

Epithelial myoepithelial carcinoma is a rare low grade malignant salivary gland neoplasm that most commonly occurs in the parotid gland but can also arise in minor salivary glands. We report a case of primary epithelial myoepithelial carcinoma of submandibular salivary gland in a 65 year old female who presented with left cheek swelling of six months duration. CT scan revealed a localized subma...

Myoepithelioma is a rare salivary gland neoplasm. They most commonly affect the major and minor salivary glands with the parotid gland being the most common, approximately 40%. Only 1% of all salivary gland neoplasms are myoepitheliomas. Myoepithelioma is usually a benign tumor arising from neoplastic myoepithelial or basket cells which are found between the basement membrane and the basal plas...