Descriptive Analysis of Salivary Gland Tumours in Ilorin, Nigeria.
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2013
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Nigerian Quarterly Journal of Hospital Medicine. Published by University of Lagos. Medical Society, Lagos, Nigeria.
Abstract
Background: Salivary gland tumors are relatively
uncommon lesions accounting for about 3-6% of head and
neck tumors with 60 - 80% affecting the parotid glands.
0bjective: The aim is to analyse descriptively the pattern
of salivary gland tumor seen in Ilorin, North-Central Nigeria.
Methods: A retrospective analysis of histological slides
reviewed by the pathologist of patients with primary
epithelial salivary gland neoplasms operated between
2001 and 2010, in Otorhinolaryngology and General
Surgery. Information regarding age, gender, and
anatomical location of the tumors was retrieved from the
patients' hospital records. All information was entered into a
SPSS computer software and result presented in tables
and figures.
Results: A total of 56 case notes and slides were reviewed
with 24males and 32females (M:F-1.0:1.3), with the peak
age of 21-30years in males and 31-40 among the
females The mean age is 38.62yrs (SD = 18.4±2.5) . There
were 31 (55.4%), 17 (30.4%), 8 (14.2%), parotid,
submandibular and minor salivary glands tumours
respectively. Histologically pleomorphic adenoma
constituted the largest with 62.5% in both the
submandibular and the parotid gland specimen analysis
then, mucoepidermoid tumour in 26.7%, adenoid cystic
carcinoma in 5.4% and 1.8% each of acinic cell tumour
(malignant), poorly differentiated carcinoma and
squamous cell carcinoma.
Conclusion: Salivary tumours were slightly commoner
among females with pleomorphic adenoma in the third to
fifth decades of life being the commonest benign tumour
and mucoepidermoid the commonest malignant variants in
the 5th to 6th decades of life.
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Descriptive analysis of Salivary gland tumors
Keywords
Salivary gland;, Parotid;, Pleomorphic adenoma;, mucoepidermoid,, females
Citation
Alabi, B.S., Rahman, G.A., Ibrahim, O.O.K., Afolabi, O.A & Omokanye, H.K., (2013): Descriptive Analysis of Salivary Gland Tumours in Ilorin, Nigeria. Nigerian Quarterly Journal of Hospital Medicine. 23(3); 213-216.