Resumen de Oncocytic variant of sialadenoma papilliferum – a rare salivary gland tumor: a case report

Heidi Tuominen, Aaro Turunen, Jaana Willberg, Hanna Laine

• Sialadenoma papilliferum (SP) is a rare minor salivary gland neoplasm that accounts for less than 1% of all salivary gland tumors. The tumor typically affects older people, presenting most commonly as a slow-growing tumor of the hard palate, although other anatomical subsites, comprising the oral cavity and parotid glands, have also been reported.

  We report a SP occurring in a 90-year-old female. The patient described feeling a nodule on her palate for several years. The lesion was painless and clinically resembled a round craterlike ulceration of diameter 3 mm. The excisional biopsy was diagnosed histologically as SP. Here, we report the clinicopathological and radiological findings of palatal SP.

  SP is a rare, benign salivary gland neoplasm, and there are only a few cases described in the literature. Although mostly benign, malignant transformation can occur and should prompt the clinician to ensure complete removal of the tumor tissue.