Table of Contents:
  • The normal salivary glands
  • Development
  • Gross anatomy
  • Parotid gland
  • Submandibular gland
  • Sublingual gland
  • Minor salivary glands
  • Histology
  • Parotid gland
  • Submandibular gland
  • Sublingual gland
  • Minor salivary glands
  • Ultrastructure
  • Acinar cells
  • Myoepithelial cells
  • Intercalated duct cells
  • Striated duct cells
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • Physiology
  • Classification
  • Salivary gland tumors : general considerations
  • Incidence
  • Etiology
  • Demographic and clinical features
  • Site-specific tumor differences
  • Comparison of fine-needle aspiration biopsy with intraoperative frozen section
  • Microscopic grading
  • Clinical staging
  • Other prognostic factors
  • Diagnostic imaging
  • Benign epithelial neoplasms
  • Pleomorphic adenoma
  • Warthin tumor
  • Oncocytoma
  • Canalicular adenoma
  • Cystadenoma
  • Myoepithelioma
  • Sebaceous adenoma amd sebaceous lymphadenoma
  • Sebaceous adenoma
  • Sebaceous lymphadenoma and lymphadenoma
  • Inverted ductal papilloma
  • Intraductal papilloma
  • Sialadenoma papilliferum
  • Malignant epithelial neoplasms
  • Mucoepidermoid carcinoma
  • Central (primary intraosseous) mucoepidermoid carcinoma
  • Adenocarcinoma, not otherwise specified
  • Acinic cell adenocarcinoma
  • Adenoid cystic carcinoma
  • Polymorphous low-grade adenocarcinoma
  • Carcinoma ex pleomorphic adenoma
  • Basal cell carcinoma
  • Cystadenocarcinoma
  • Primary squamous cell carcinoma
  • Undifferentiated carcinoma (large cell type)
  • (Hyalinizing) clear cell adenocarcinoma
  • Epithelial-myoepithelial carcinoma
  • Salivary duct carcinoma
  • Small cell carcinoma
  • Myoepithelial carcinoma
  • Lymphoepithelial carcinoma
  • Oncocytic carcinoma
  • Carcinosarcoma
  • Adenosquamous carcinoma
  • Metastasizing pleomorphic adenoma
  • Sebaceous adenocarcinoma and sebaceous lymphadenocarcinoma
  • Sebaceous adenocarcinoma
  • Sebaceous lymphadenocarcinoma
  • Mucinous adenocarcinoma
  • Sialoblastoma
  • Nonlymphoid mesenchymal neoplasms
  • Benigh tumors
  • Hemangioma
  • Lipoma
  • Lymphangioma
  • Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor
  • Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor
  • Malignant tumors
  • Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors
  • Rhabdomyosarcoma
  • Other sarcomas
  • Malignant lymphomas of the major salivary glands
  • Lymphoma and Sjorgren syndrome
  • Non-Hodgkin lymphomas
  • Hodgkin lymphoma
  • Secondary tumors
  • Tumor-like conditions
  • Lymphoepithelial sialadenitis
  • Chronic sclerosing sialadenitis
  • Sclerosing polycystic adenosis
  • Necrotizing sialomentaplasia
  • Salivary mucoceles and cysts
  • Mucocele
  • Salivary duct cyst
  • Lymphoepithelial cyst
  • HIV-associated salivary gland disease (multiple lymphoepithelial cysts of the parotid gland)
  • Sialadenosis
  • Adenomatoid hyperplasia