Comparisons of means were by Student's t-test; proportions were compared by χ 2-tests or Fisher's exact test, where expected frequencies were less than five. Cancer-specific survival and recurrence ...

The relative frequency of carcinoma and mixed tumors of the parotid and submaxillary salivary glands is unusually high in this series of cases as shown in Table 1. This is due to the fact that more ...

This is a patient with surgical stage T1, clinical N0, low-grade parotid mucoepidermoid carcinoma. In the face of small, low-grade cancers, the risk of lymph node metastasis is very low, and the ...

The current American Joint Cancer Committee (AJCC) staging system for salivary gland tumors does not include histology and grade in its classification despite their proven prognostic importance. We ...

Both labial and parotid salivary glands can be used for the diagnosis of Sjögren syndrome (SjS), as their biopsies show largely similar histopathologic features in patients with sicca complaints ...

The parotid glands are salivary glands located in front of the ears. Rarely, primary malignant tumours can develop in the parotid glands (although benign tumours are more common). Patients with ...