Suwała Paweł, Wilczyński Krzysztof, Barnaś Szczepan
Kliniczny Oddział Otolaryngologii 4. Wojskowego Szpitala Klinicznego z Polikliniką, we Wrocławiu.
Otolaryngol Pol. 2012 Jan-Feb;66(1):43-5. doi: 10.1016/S0030-6657(12)70748-5.
The aim of the study is the analyses of parotid glands neoplasms on 105 patients who underwent surgery at the Otolaryngology Clinical Ward of 4(th) Military Clinical Hospital with the Policlinic in Wrocław in the years 1992-2010.
In the group of patients with parotid glands tumor there were 52 women and 53 men. The following data: age, sex, time between appearing first symptoms and operation, the kind of the executed operation and the result of histopathological examination were taken into account in this study.
The most common of tumors are benign neoplasms (88%), the malignant ones are in 12% of patients. The most frequent tumor is pleomorphic adenoma (53%), the second one is lympho-adenoma (26%). In parotid gland tumors are often located on the left side (60%). Authors noticed significant development of the quantity operated parotid salivary gland tumors in the last three years.
