Hadfield P J, Fisher C, Archer D J
Department of Head and Neck Surgery and Histopathology, Royal Marsden Hospital, London, UK.
J Laryngol Otol. 1996 May;110(5):503-6. doi: 10.1017/s0022215100134115.
Adenoid cystic carcinoma is the commonest tumour of minor salivary glands. In the case described here a pulmonary mass was found. This was likely to be a distant metastasis, particularly as the primary tumour was of cribriform subtype with perineural invasion and resection was microscopically incomplete. However, surgical excision of the pulmonary mass enabled histopathological studies to be carried out which found it to be an unrelated bronchioloalveolar carcinoma.
