Salivary gland tumours and tumours of the oral cavity in western Nigeria.

Abstract

THERE is little information available on the frequency and types of salivary gland and oral tumours in West Africa. This paper records the frequency and types of these tumours seen in Western Nigerians and diagnosed in the Department of Pathology, University College Hospital, Ibadan, over a six-year period . Tumours of the maxillary antrum were not considered. The histological material has been reviewed and case histories consulted. During this period a cancer rate survey was initiated in Ibadan and the results, which have already been published (Edington and Maclean, 1965), have been used to quote relative ratio frequencies and rate densities where relevant.During the period 1958-63 290 tumours of the salivary glands and oral cavity were recorded. The findings are shown in Table I.

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