Salivary gland masses: Analysis of 155 cases

İBRAHİM ÇUKUROVA,Doğan ÖZKUL,Erhan DEMİRHAN,Erdem MENGİ,Yusuf YALÇIN,Ayça TAN

Abstract

THE OBJECTIVE: To review the patients we have operated in our clinic due to salivary gland mass and compare them with the literature. THE PATIENTS AND THE METHOD: The patients who applied to our clinic and were operated due to salivary gland pathology between January 2001 and January 2007 were reviewed according to the surgical prosedüre that perfonned and the postoperative histopathological evaluation, retrospectively. THE FINDINGS: 155 patients have been operated in our clinic due to salivary gland pethology between January 2001 and January 2007. 75 patients were male and 80 were female. 103 (66,4%) of the salivary gland masses were originating from parotis, 49 (31,6%) from submandibular gland and 3 (2%) from minor salivary glands. 23 (22,3%) of the parotis masses were malignant, 80 (77,7%) were benign, 3 (6,2%) of the submandibular salivary gland masses were malignant, 41 (93,8%) were benign and 2 (66,6%) of the minor salivary gland masses were malignant, 1 (33,3%) were benign. CONCLUSION: We aimed to present the surgery we have performed oriented at the salivary gland masses and the postoperative histopathological results we have obtained.

Özet

AMAÇ: Kliniğimizde tükürük bezi kitlesi nedeniyle opere ettiğimiz hastaları gözden geçirmek ve literatürle kıyaslamak. HASTALAR VE YÖNTEM: Ocak 2001 ile Ocak 2007 tarihleri arasında kliniğimize başvuran ve tükrük bezi patolojisi nedeniyle opere olan hastalar uygulanan cerrahi yöntem ve postoperatif histopatolojik değerlendirmeleri göz önüne alınarak geriye dönük olarak incelendi. BULGULAR: Ocak 2001 ile Ocak 2007 arasında kliniğimizde tükrük bezi patolojisi nedeniyle 155 hasta ameliyat edilmiştir. Hastaların 75'i erkek 80'i kadındır. Tükürük bezi kitlelerinin 103 (% 66,4)'ü parotisten, 49 (%31,6)'u submandibular bezden ve 3 (%2)'ü minör tükürük bezlerinden kaynaklanıyordu. Parotis kitlelerinin 23 (%22,3) tanesi malin, 80 (%77,7) tanesi benin, submandibular tükürük bezi kitlelerinin 3 (%6,2) tanesi malin, 46 (%93,8) tanesi benin, minör tükürük bezlerinin 2 (%66,6) tanesi malin ve 1 (33,3) tanesi benin karakterde idi. SONUÇ: Tükürük bezi kitlelerine yönelik uyguladığımız cerrahi yöntem ve postoperatif histopatolojik sonuçları sunmayı amaçladık.