Salivary gland neoplasms : analysis of 89 cases from Basrah

Abstract EN

During 17 years period (1984-2000) eighty-nine cases of tumours of the salivary glands (SG) were diagnosed from Basrah population at the histopathology laboratory of AI-Sader Teaching Hospital, and from AlWiswasy private laboratory.

The diagnosis of individual tumours was based on the World Health Organization (WHO) classification.

The tumours were analyzed considering histopathological type, sex, age and site.

Of these 89 tumours, (71 %) were classified as benign and (29 %) malignant.

Pleomorphic adenomas (PA) constituted the most common histopathological type of the benign tumours (66 %), whereas adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) was the most common malignant tumours (9 %).

There was a male predominance (for both benign and malignant cases), with a male to female ratio of 1.4 : 1.

The mean age for benign tumours was 39.79 years and for malignant tumour was 43.61 years.

The parotid gland was the commonest site of occurrence with a relative frequency of (54 %) and (62 %) for benign and malignant cases respectively.

Our results were compared with Iraqi and other studies.