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Mehmet Ali Erdem1, Abdulkadir Burak Cankaya, Gülşah Güven
1Departments of Oral Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, Institute of Oncology, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Abstract:
Pleomorphic adenoma is the most common mixed benign tumor of major salivary glands. Approximately 80% of these tumors arise in the parotid gland, whereas 7% arise in the minor salivary glands. The most common sites for minor salivary gland where pleomorphic adenoma arises are the palates followed by lips and cheek. We report a palate mass in a 46-year-old male patient. The initial cytologic diagnosis by fine-needle aspiration biopsy was pleomorphic adenoma. This report describes a case of pleomorphic adenoma regarding all distinctive diagnoses with the review of the literature.
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