The incidence of malignancy in neoplasms of the submandibular salivary gland

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Schoeman, Bernardus Johannes
Clifford, S.D.

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Health and Medical Publishing Group

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OBJECTIVE: To test the validity of the reported high incidence (50%) of malignancy in neoplasms of the submandibular salivary gland, and to compare it with that of the parotid gland. METHODS: This is a retrospective analysis of major salivary gland neoplasms in 127 patients who were treated between August 1988 and December 2004 (15½ years) at Kalafong Hospital, Pretoria. RESULTS: All but 1 of the patients were black. There were 100 benign and 27 malignant tumours. Thirty tumours were in the submandibular gland, including 3 malignant tumours, i.e. 10%. Of 97 parotid gland tumours, 24 (24.7%) were malignant. CONCLUSION: The 10% incidence of malignancy in neoplasms of the submandibular gland in our series is much lower than the 50% reported in the literature. We postulate that race (black ethnicity) is probably a factor in this low incidence.

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Neoplasms, Submandibular salivary gland

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Schoeman, BJ & Clifford, SD 2007, 'The incidence of malignancy in neoplasms of the submandibular salivary gland', vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 134-135. [http://www.hmpg.co.za/journaldetail.php?journalno=8]