Our surgical approach to parotid masses: an analysis of 130 patients

Abstract

Our study results suggest that the distribution of patient age-sex, tumor location, pathologic diagnosis, and postoperative complication rate is consistent with the literature.

Histopathological Diversity in Parotidectomy Materials in Turkish Population: Clinicopathologic Analysis and Demographic Features of 136 Cases in a Tertiary Care Hospital

“…These rates were in line with 83% benign and 17% malignant rates reported from Turkey in a wide series comprising 230 cases in our country (Sungur et al, 2002). The benign/malign ratios were reported as 78.5/21.5 (Kizil et al, 2013) and 79.5/20.5 (Gunizi and Guney, 2013) in the previous studies. On the other hand the results of researchers outside our country were as follows: in the salivary gland series where 88 had parotid within the Brazilian population (Vargas et al, 2002), they detected 83% benign and 17% malignant parotid tumors.…”

“…About 60-90% of benign parotid tumors is composed of pleomorphic adenomas. Considering the studies conducted in our country, the PA rate was reported as 79.1% (Sungur et al, 2002), 60.3% (Kizil et al, 2013) and as 58.5% (Gunizi and Guney, 2013). The PA rates; reported from Brazil (Vargas et al, 2002) was 79.4%, from Taiwan (Lin et al, 2008) was 51%, from Pakistan (Ali et al, 2010) was 78%, from Korea was 61.6%, from Japan (Kawata et al, 2012) was 49%.…”

“…We observed a predominance of female both in benign (M/F=0,6) and malignant (M/F=0,3) parotid masses in our study (in total; M/F=0.5). While the number of female patients was higher (M/F=0.94) in some studies (Gunizi and Guney, 2013), the number of male patients was prevalent in others (Sungur et al, 2002;Kizil et al, 2013). Likewise the number of male patients was higher (M/F=1.25) compared to that of female patients in Korea and (M/F=1.15) in Pakistan (Ali et al, 2012).…”

“…The age interval in both genders was 8-83 years, while the mean age was 48 years. Similarly, authors reported the age interval as 15-81 years and the mean age was 47.2 years (Gunizi and Guney, 2013) and 47.6 years (Kizil et al, 2013). We noted that malignant tumors occurred in women at a mean age of 48 years, while they occurred at a more advanced age as 62 years in men.…”

“…Histopathological subtypes in the studies relating to the epidemiology of parotid tumors in our country were reported at various rates (Sungur et al, 2002;Gunizi and Guney, 2013;Kizil et al, 2013). In this study, we aimed to share and discuss the defining characteristics of parotid masses operated in the Ear-Nose-Throat and Head & Neck Surgery Clinic of our hospital and evaluated in the Pathology laboratory, along with national and international literature data.…”