Pleomorphic adenoma is a most common benign tumor which affects the major salivary glands and infrequently arises from minor salivary glands. It is a mixed tumor of salivary gland origin and has elements from both epithelial and mesenchymal tissues. In this case report we are presenting a case of pleomorphic adenoma of hard palate in a 24 year old female patient who reported to our department w...

Small cell carcinoma (SmCC) is a poorly diff erentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma that has been reported in several sites throughout the head and neck region, including salivary glands where it is a rare primary tumor accounting for less than 1% of all salivary gland tumors. We report a case of a 55-yearold man with problems consisting of neck pain and diffi cult swallowing induced by a retromol...

The pleomorphic adenoma is the most common salivary gland tumor. A remarkable morphological diversity can exist from one tumor to the next. We present here a case of pleomorphic adenoma of minor salivary glands of the soft palate which had predominantly myoepithelial cells with minimal stroma, ductal cells, or tubular elements.

introduction: in this study the automatic separation of oral and salivary gland activity and spontaneous secretion by means of factor analysis for quantitative salivary gland scintigraphy is introduced. methods: after intravenous administration of 99mtc sodium pertechnetate, dynamic scintigraphy was performed. 20 minutes after tracer application 2 ml of lemon juice was delivered to stimulate t...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine whether cytomegalovirus (CMV) is present in different histological types of salivary gland cancer (SGC) by detecting CMV immediate-early (IE) and early gene products, and to determine the presence of its association with the overexpression of interleukin (IL)-6. Methods: Immunohistochemical analysis of 92 cases of different histological types of...

Basaloid tumors of the salivary gland are among the most diagnostically challenging areas of salivary gland FNA cytopathology. The primary tumors included in this group are basal cell adenoma, basal cell adenocarcinoma, and the solid variant of adenoid cystic carcinoma. In addition, various other salivary gland tumors, such as cellular pleomorphic adenoma, can also exhibit basaloid features and...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine the prognostic value of O-6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) inactivation in a group of 286 patients with salivary gland carcinoma and matched histologically normal tissues. METHODS MGMT promoter methylation was studied in 36 patients with salivary gland carcinoma and 19 histologically matched normal tissues by pyrosequencing. MG...

Basaloid tumors of the salivary gland are among the most diagnostically challenging areas of salivary gland FNA cytopathology. The primary tumors included in this group are basal cell adenoma, basal cell adenocarcinoma, and the solid variant of adenoid cystic carcinoma. In addition, various other salivary gland tumors, such as cellular pleomorphic adenoma, can also exhibit basaloid features and...

Basaloid tumors of the salivary gland are among the most diagnostically challenging areas of salivary gland FNA cytopathology. The primary tumors included in this group are basal cell adenoma, basal cell adenocarcinoma, and the solid variant of adenoid cystic carcinoma. In addition, various other salivary gland tumors, such as cellular pleomorphic adenoma, can also exhibit basaloid features and...