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...

OBJECTIVE To better characterize parotid masses incidentally identified on imaging. STUDY DESIGN Case series with chart review. SETTING Academic medical center. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Medical records were reviewed for 771 patients who underwent parotidectomy at the University of Wisconsin from 1994 to 2013. Patients were stratified into 2 groups: those with tumors identified solely on imagi...

OBJECTIVE Facial nerve preservation and oncological safety are crucial in surgery of parotid tumors. An unexpected histopathologic diagnosis of a malignant parotid tumor, however, may unfavorably require a second, more radical surgery. The aim of this study was to find out whether the assessment of serological tumor markers in parotid saliva might have some diagnostic significance in the preope...

background: salivary gland tumors are relatively uncommon and they consist of 3-10% of head and neck neoplasms. most of studies have shown geographic variation in the incidence and histopathologic types of salivary gland neoplasms. the aim of this study was to evaluate the salivary gland tumors in isfahan for 10 years duration. materials and methods: in this epidemiological study, 229 medical r...

introduction: salivary gland tumors are relatively rare and constitute 3-4% of all head and neck neoplasms. the majority (70%) of salivary gland tumors arise in the parotid gland. recommended treatment for a parotid mass is surgical excision with a surrounding cuff of normal tissue to prevent recurrence. materials and methods: this is a retrospective study of 300 patients who were operated by a...

Glomus tumors are rare neoplasms that originate from the glomus bodies, an arteriovenous anastomosis with a specialized vascular structure. The most common site for these tumors is the subungal region of the fingers. Occasionally, glomus tumors are found in the middle ear, trachea, nasal cavities, stomach, and lungs. The occurrence in the parotid regions is very rare. While multiple glomus tumo...

Sebaceous adenomas of the major salivary glands are uncommon tumors. Although sebaceous differentiation within the major salivary glands is a frequent histopathologic finding (approximately 20% to 42% of parotid glands), sebaceous neoplasms of salivary gland origin are not. A number of publications review the clinical and histologic features of sebaceous neoplasms, however, these reports focus ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The surgical approach to parotid tumors is different for benign and malignant neoplasms, but the clinical symptoms do not correlate well with histology. Difficulties in tumor classification also arise in imaging modalities, in which sonography has the lowest and MR imaging, the highest accuracy. The purpose of this study was to review our experience using conventional MR ...

Introduction: Salivary gland tumors are relatively rare and constitute 3-4% of all head and neck neoplasms. The majority (70%) of salivary gland tumors arise in the parotid gland. Recommended treatment for a parotid mass is surgical excision with a surrounding cuff of normal tissue to prevent recurrence. Materials and Methods: This is a retrospective study of 300 patients who were operated b...