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Salivary glands


Reviewers: Fatima Aly, M.D., Adriana Handra-Luca, M.D. (see Reviewers page)
Revised: 1 February 2013, last major update September 2012
Copyright: (c) 2003-2013, PathologyOutlines.com, Inc.

Table of contents

Primary references

Normal: normal anatomy   normal histology   embryology   sebaceous differentiation   saliva

Developmental disorders: heterotopia   polycystic disease

Inflammation: diffuse infiltrative lymphocytosis syndrome   Kimura’s disease   Mikulicz’s disease   necrotizing sialometaplasia   sialadenitis   sialolithiasis   Sjogren’s syndrome   xerostomia

Non-neoplastic tumors/tumor-like conditions: adenomatoid hyperplasia   adenomatous ductal hyperplasia of major salivary glands   amyloidosis   benign lymphoepithelial cyst   choristoma   epidermoid cyst   lymphoid hyperplasia   radiation effect

Epithelial / myoepithelial tumors: general   classification   acinic cell carcinoma   adenocarcinoma NOS   adenoid cystic carcinoma   adenosquamous carcinoma   basal cell adenocarcinoma   basal cell adenoma   canalicular adenoma   clear cell tumors   clear cell carcinoma   cystadenocarcinoma   dermal analogue tumor   epithelial myoepithelial carcinoma   giant cell tumor   hybrid carcinoma   inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor   intraductal carcinoma   inverted ductal papilloma   keratocystoma   large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma   lipoadenoma   lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma   malignant mixed tumor   metastases   mucoepidermoid carcinoma   myoepithelioma   oncocytoma   oncocytosis   oxyphilic carcinoma   papillary adenocarcinoma   pleomorphic adenoma   polymorphous low grade adenocarcinoma   salivary duct carcinoma   salivary duct papilloma   sebaceous adenoma/lymphadenoma   sialadenoma papilliferum   signet ring adenocarcinoma   small cell carcinoma   squamous cell carcinoma   Warthin’s tumor

Lymphomas: lymphoma-general   MALT lymphoma   T cell lymphoma

Sarcomas: angiosarcoma   desmoplastic small round cell tumor   hemangioendothelioma   liposarcoma   undifferentiated sarcoma

Other tumors: embryoma   granular cell   lipoma   lipomatosis   melanoma   Rosai-Dorfman disease   schwannoma   sialolipoma

Miscellaneous: features to report   fine needle aspiration   frozen section   grossing   staging

Superpages: entire chapter

Index (table of contents in alphabetical order)

A-E: acinic cell carcinoma   adenocarcinoma NOS   adenoid cystic carcinoma   adenomatoid hyperplasia   adenomatous ductal hyperplasia of major salivary glands   adenosquamous carcinoma   amyloidosis   angiosarcoma   basal cell adenocarcinoma   basal cell adenoma   benign lymphoepithelial cyst   canalicular adenoma   choristoma   clear cell carcinoma   clear cell tumors   cystadenocarcinoma   dermal analogue tumor   desmoplastic small round cell tumor   diffuse infiltrative lymphocytosis syndrome   embryology   embryoma   epidermoid cyst   epithelial myoepithelial carcinoma   epithelial-myoepithelial tumors classification   epithelial-myoepithelial tumors general

F-N: features to report   fine needle aspiration   frozen section   giant cell tumor   granular cell   grossing   hemangioendothelioma   heterotopia   hybrid carcinoma   inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor   intraductal carcinoma   inverted ductal papilloma   keratocystoma   Kimura’s disease   large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma   lipoadenoma   lipoma   lipomatosis   liposarcoma   lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma   lymphoid hyperplasia   lymphoma-general   malignant mixed tumor   MALT lymphoma   melanoma   metastases   Mikulicz’s disease   mucoepidermoid carcinoma   myoepithelioma   necrotizing sialometaplasia   normal anatomy   normal histology

O-Z: oncocytoma   oncocytosis   oxyphilic carcinoma   papillary adenocarcinoma   pleomorphic adenoma   polycystic disease   polymorphous low grade adenocarcinoma   radiation effect   Rosai-Dorfman disease   saliva   salivary duct carcinoma   salivary duct papilloma   schwannoma   sebaceous adenoma/lymphadenoma   sebaceous differentiation   sialadenitis   sialadenoma papilliferum   sialolipoma   sialolithiasis   signet ring adenocarcinoma   small cell carcinoma   squamous cell carcinoma   Sjogren’s syndrome   staging   T cell lymphoma   undifferentiated sarcoma   xerostomia   Warthin’s tumor

Primary references

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American Journal of Surgical Pathology
Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Human Pathology
Modern Pathology
Johns Hopkins cytopathology tutorial

Barnes: Pathology and Genetics of Head and Neck Tumours (IARC, WHO Classification, 2005)
Edge: AJCC Cancer Staging Manual (7th ed)
Ellis: Tumors of the Salivary Glands (AFIP Atlas of Tumor Pathology: Series 4), 2008

Please refer to these primary references for more detailed discussions and photographs

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