Mixed tumor in cervical salivary heterotopy
Marcos Ordóñez, M.; Sancho Alvarez, A.; Morais Pérez, D.; Alvarez Gago, T.
Acta Otorrinolaringologica Espanola 45(5): 387-389
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0001-6519 PMID: 7811517 Document Number: 435947
This paper presents a case, infrequent and clinically unsuspected, of pleomorphic adenoma in the upper region of the neck in front of the sternocleidomastoid, independent of the salivary glands. The tumor developed within an heterotopic salivary gland of seromucose type, the histopathologic study of the surgical piece being decisive in the diagnosis. The characteristics of salivary heterotopias of the neck, and their diagnostic difficulties and histogenetic problems are reviewed.