Histological re-evaluation of 101 intraoral salivary gland tumors by an EORTC-study group

Tumors of the salivary glands constitute a heterogeneous group of lesions of great morphologic variation and for this reason present many difficulties in histologic classification. The histologic slides of 101 consecutive intraoral salivary gland tumors of the Department of Oral Pathology of the Free University in Amsterdam were reviewed, retrospectively, by an EORTC-study group on salivary gland tumors. Complete concurrence of diagnosis was reached in 54 cases. In 33 cases there were minor disagreements, mostly related to subclassification. Major disagreements, relating to benign versus malignant, occurred in eight cases (7.9 per cent).