Clinical Study
Minor Salivary Gland Tumours of Upper Aerodigestive Tract: A Clinicopathological Study
Table 2
Histological type of minor salivary gland tumours.
| | Type of tumour | | Number |
| | Benign | | 21 | (36.8%) | | Pleomorphic adenoma | 17 | | Myoepithelioma | 1 | | Pleomorphic adenoma and myoepithelioma | 1 | | Monomorphic adenoma | 1 | | Basal cell adenoma | 1 |
| | Malignant | | 36 | (63.2%) | | Adenoid cystic carcinoma | 18 | | Mucoepidermoid carcinoma | 8 | | Adenocarcinoma | 4 | | Acinic cell carcinoma | 3 | | Papillary cystadenocarcinoma | 1 | | Carcinoma ex pleomorphic adenoma | 1 | | Undifferentiated carcinoma | 1 |
| | | Total: 57 tumours* |
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*In one patients two MSGTs were diagnosed.
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