The mucoepidermoid carcinoma is a malignant neoplasm arising from the salivary gland, and it is mainly developed on the head and neck areas. The prognosis of patients depend on histologic grade, stage and treatment modality, etc. We analyzed 37
patients of mucoepidermoid carcinoma, visited to Korea Cancer Center Hospital from January 1985 to December 1993 retrospectively.
Twenty patients were males, 17 patients were females. The age of the patients ranged between 17 and 75 years, and the mean age was 46.2 years old. The tumors were located at the parotid glands in 14 patients, the submandibular glands in 5
patients,
the
sublingual gland in one patient and the minor salivary glands in 17 patients. Histopathologically, the high grade mucoepidermoid carcinoma were 10 cases, intermediate grade were 19 cases and low grade were 8 cases. Tumor staging by AJCC
classification,
1992, distributed with stage Ⅰ 12 cases, stage Ⅱ 5 cases, stage Ⅲ 9 cases, and stage Ⅳ 11 cases. Most patients were treated by surgery with or without radiation therapy. Overall 5 years survival rate by actuarial method were 58.5%. (Korean J
Otolaryngol 38:3, 1995)
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