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Tumors of the minor salivary glands: A report of 46 cases
Author(s) -
Bergman Frank
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(196903)23:3<538::aid-cncr2820230304>3.0.co;2-7
Subject(s) - medicine , minor salivary glands , adenoid cystic carcinoma , mucoepidermoid carcinoma , histopathology , pathology , salivary gland , incidence (geometry) , adenolymphoma , adenoid , pleomorphic adenoma , adenoma , cylindroma , carcinoma , physics , optics
This paper records the frequency and the types of all 46 verified tumors of the minor salivary glands seen during a 8‐year period at the University departments of Pathology and Oral Histopathology, Umeå, Sweden. The series consisted of 39 benign mixed tumors, 1 oxyphil adenoma, 2 malignant mixed tumors, 3 mucoepidermoid carcinomas and 1 adenoid cystic carcinoma. This series was compared with other series regarding classification and pathologic anatomy. Attention has been called especially to differences in the reported incidences of malignant tumors: in the present series the incidence was unusually low. It is proposed that the nature of the hospitals where most of the published materials were collected could explain the divergencies between different series, which thus seem to represent biased samples. This implies that the widely accepted belief that an unusually high percentage of malignant tumors is found in the minor salivary glands must be seriously questioned.