ch. 11 Flashcards
What type of fluid makes up the parotid gland
Serous
what type of fluid makes up the submandibular gland?
Mostly serous
what type of fluid makes up the sublingual gland?
Mucous
What is a mucocele? What causes it
Bubble of mucin in the soft tissue because of trauma (rupture)
Where is a mucocele most common?
lower lip (from trauma)
If you get a mucocele in the upper lip what is it most likely to be?
Tumor
If you get a mucucele in the retromolar pad what is it most likely?
Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma
What is a mucocele on the floor of the mouth?
A Ranula (sublingual gland rupture: can look like a frog throat)
What is a salivary duct cyst? What color?
epithelium lined cavity that comes from salivary glands
Bluish
What is a sialolith?
A calcification in the salivary duct
What duct most likely gets a sialolith? Why this duct?
submandibular (long ducts)
What is sialadenitis? What’s the most likely cause?
Inflammation of the salivary glands,
Mumps or bacteria
What is sialadenosis?
What can cause it?
non-inflammatory asymptomatic salivary gland enlargement:
Endocrine disorders, alcoholism, malnutrition, drugs
What is necrotizing sialometaplasia?
What causes it? What does it look like?
local destruction of salivary glands with inflammation Dental injection, trauma Malignant tumor (really gross)
What is cheilitis glandularis? What does it look like?
Swelling of the lower lip because of hypertrophy of salivary gland:
“weeping” blisters on the lip
What is sialorrhea?
drooling
What’s another name for sjogrens syndrome?
sicca syndrome
What type of disease is sjogrens syndrome? sicca syndrome
What parts of the body are effected by it?
autoimmune disease of the lacrimal and salivary glands: dry mouth, dry eyes
What does primary Sjogrens syndrome mean?
No other autoimmune disease present
What is a sjogren’s syndrome patient at risk for (other than xerostomia)?
Lymphoma
What does salivary neoplasm mean?
Salivary gland tumors
Where is the most common site in the mouth for minor salivary gland neoplasms?
palate
Where in the mouth would you consider a salivary gland neoplasm to be malignant for sure?
Sublingual neoplasm
What’s the most common benign neoplasm’s name?
Pleomorphic adenoma
What’s the most common malignant neoplasm’s name?
Mucoepidermoid carcinoma
What’s a canalicular adenoma? What color? Where’s it mainly found? Benign or malignant?
Slow growing, painless mass, blue or normal color
upper Lips
Benign
Where’s a pleomorphic adenoma most common? And how do you see it
Palate and it shows on the cheek by the parotid
What’s a warthins tumor? How common is it (1st or 2nd)? Another name for it? What person is at more risk for it? Benign or Malignant?
Tumor in the parotid gland on both sides (second most common benign parotid tumor)
Papillary cystadenoma Lymphomatosum
Smokers
Benign
What’s the first and second most common benign neoplasm?
- Pleomorphic adenoma
2. Warthins tumor
What’s a mucoepidermoid carcinoma? Where
the most common malignant salivary gland tumor in children Mostly parotid (then palate)
What’s the most common malignant salivary gland tumor in children and adults?
Mucoepidermoid carcinoma
What is intraosseous mucoepidermoid carcinoma?
Muco ep in bone (because of entrapped salivary gland tissue)
What’s an acinic cell adenocarcinoma?
malignant tumor with serous Acinar cell origin
What’s the most common malignant salivary gland tumor in submandibular gland?
Adenoid cystic carcinoma
What does adenoid cystic carcinoma look like histologically?
Swiss cheese holes
What tumor is most likely to grow around nerves?
Adenoid cystic carcinoma
If we see a picture of a bump on the palate what could the clinical pathology be?
Salivary gland neoplasm
Where is the most common location for Polymorphous low-grade adenocarcinoma?
Palate (which is minor salivary glands)
What is a carcinosarcoma?
Epithelial (carcinoma) and Mesenchymal (sarcoma) origin tumor
What’s a carcinoma ex pleomorphic adenoma?
A pleomorphic adenoma that has turned cancerous
What is the prognosis of mucoepidermoid carcinoma determined by?
Clinical Stage and Histologic grade (low, intermediate, high)
Minor Gland tumor benign vs maligant
Benign 50%
Malignant 50%
Upper lip tumors benign vs malignant
Benign 80%
Malignant 20%
Lower Lip tumors benign vs malignant
Benign 40%
Malignant 60%
Palate tumors benign vs malignant
Benign 50%
Malignant 50%
Tongue tumors benign vs malignant
Benign 15%
Malignant 85%
Cheek tumors benign vs malignant
Benign 50%
Malignant 50%
Retromolar pad benign vs malignant
Benign 10%
Malignant 90%
What is kaposis sarcoma indicitive of?
What does Kaposis sarcoma look like?
AIDS presence
Red purple mass on the palate
Sublingual gland
benign vs malignant
30 benign
70 malignant
Submandibular gland
benign vs malignant
60 benign
40 malignant
parotid gland
benign vs malignant
70 benign
30 malignant
