Dear Editor, Salivary duct carcinomas (SDC) are primarily high-grade, aggressive malignancies that affect men in the fi fth and sixth decades of life. These tumours are primarily found in the major salivary glands, especially parotid and are rarely from minor salivary glands. If it involves the minor salivary gland, the most common reported sites include the paranasal sinuses and intraoral cavi...

Salivary gland tumors are relatively rare neoplasms, mostly located in the parotid gland, and few are malignant. Preoperative evaluation of salivary gland tumors includes fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC). OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine the importance of FNAC in the evaluation of rare salivary gland neoplasms. MATERIAL AND METHODS Four cases of rare salivary gland...

Primary salivary gland carcinoma with neuroendocrine differentiation is of rare occurrence, especially so in the parotid gland. Amongst the various reported primary tumors with neuroendocrine differentiation, acinic cell carcinoma (ACC) one such tumor. A 48 year old lady presented with a gradually increasing right infra-auricular swelling for a period of 1 year which enlarged suddenly in a shor...

Salivary duct carcinoma is a rare and highly aggressive malignant neoplasm that frequently metastasises to other organs, but cutaneous metastasis is uncommon. There are only 6 cases reported in the literature with metastases to the skin and in all cases the tumour originates from the parotid gland. We present a case of skin metastases from the submandibular gland that was mistaken for basal cel...

Introduction: Salivary gland cancer is an uncommon malignancy in the head and neck. The most common histopathologic type salivary malignancies mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC). Radiotherapy has a role malignancy, especially inoperable cases postoperative settings. Definitive or radiotherapy with without chemotherapy can improve locoregional control (LRC) patients parotid carcinoma. Case Presentat...

OBJECTIVE To determine the pattern of occurrence of salivary gland tumours in Tanzania over a period of twenty years. DESIGN Cross-sectional retrospective study. SETTING Two referral centres; Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH) and Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC). METHODS Medical records of patients who presented with tumours of the salivary glands in the two major referral cent...

Sclerosing polycystic adenosis (SPA) is a rare, newly-reported lesion of the salivary glands. Most cases occurred within mayor salivary glands and were frequently confused with other salivary gland carcinomas such as acinar cell carcinoma. We report a case of SPA within the submandibular gland in a 63-year-old woman.

Systemic therapy for salivary gland carcinoma (SGC) is indicated recurrent and/or metastatic (RM) disease. The background, goals of therapy, organ function, symptomatic or a symptomatic, and histopathology should be considered in each case. Adenoid cystic with only lung metastasis often progresses slowly many cases are followed up without whereas duct carcinoma, adenocarcinoma NOS, adenoid mult...

Estrogen receptors (ERs) expression has been studied in salivary gland tumors, however, there are conflicting results regarding its expression in the literatures. The aim of this study was to investigate the expression of estrogen receptors protein (ERs) in pleomorphic adenoma (PA) and mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC) of salivary glands using immunohistochemistry. 35 cases of intraoral minor sali...

Purpose: It has been reported that diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) might be useful for characterizing head and neck tumors, suggesting that malignant tumors have a lower apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) than benign tumors. However, it remains uncertain if ADC is useful for distinguishing between benign and malignant salivary gland tumors. This study was intended to evaluate the ADC of beni...