salivary gland tumors

Salivary gland neoplasms comprise less than 2% of all tumors in humans and 3% of all head and neck tumors. 80% of them are benign and only 20% are malignant.

Classification (AFIP)

- salivary gland epithelial tumors
 salivary epithelial benign tumors

• pleomorphic adenoma (mixed tumor)
• Warthin tumor (papillary cystadenoma lymphomatosum)
• salivary basal cell adenoma
• salivary myoepithelioma
• salivary canalicular adenoma
• salivary oncocytoma
• salivary cystadenoma
• salivary sebaceous adenoma
• siladenoma
• salivary lymphadenoma
• salivary ductal papillomas
  • salivary intraductal papilloma
  • salivary inverted ductal papilloma
  • siladenoma papilliferum

 salivary epithelial malignant tumors

• salivary acinic cell adenocarcinoma
• salivary basal cell adenocarcinoma
• salivary clear cell adenocarcinoma
• salivary cystadenocarcinoma
• salivary sebaceous adenocarcinoma
• salivary lymphadenocarcinoma
• salivary adenoid cystic carcinoma
• salivary mucinous adenocarcinoma
• malignant mixed tumor
• salivary carcinosarcoma
• salivary squamous cell carcinoma
• salivary mucoepidermoid carcinoma
• salivary adenosquamous carcinoma
• salivary epithelial-myoepithelial carcinoma
• salivary oncocytic carcinoma
• salivary duct carcinoma
• salivary myoepithelial carcinoma
• salivary small cell undifferenciated carcinoma (neuroendocrine features) (#14763575#)
• salivary gland anlage tumor (SGAT)

- salivary mesenchymal tumors

• osteoclast-type giant cell neoplasm of salivary gland
• salivary hemangioma
• salivary lipoma
• salivary lymphangioma
• salivary malignant schwannoma
• salivary hemangiopericytoma
• salivary malignat fibrous histiocytoma

- salivary lymphomas
- salivary metastatic tumors

Variants

 pediatric salivary tumors

See also

 pediatric epithelial salivary gland tumors

References

 Pediatric epithelial salivary gland tumors: Spectrum of histologies and cytogenetics at a Children’s Hospital. Craver RD, Fonseca P, Carr R. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2010 Jan 7. PMID: #20055685#