Case Report
Year : 2018 | Volume : 2 | Issue : 2 | Page : 56 - 57
Sialolipoma: An Interesting and Rare Tumor of the Submandibular Gland
Departments of ENT and Head and Neck Surgery and 1 Pathology, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth, Puducherry, India
Address for correspondence:
Dr. Satvinder Singh Bakshi,
E‐mail: saty.bakshi@gmail.com
Abstract
Salivary glands containing coexisting lipomatous lesions are rare and have only been identified recently as a distinct entity; one of these lesions is a sialolipoma. The characteristic feature of these tumors is a benign proliferation of mature adipose tissue along with normal salivary gland features. We describe a case of a slowly enlarging mass in the submandibular region of a 45‐year‐old male which on excision was reported as sialolipoma
Keywords: Lipoma, sialolipoma, submandibular gland
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How to cite this article:
Bakshi SS, Vaithy AK. Sialolipoma: An interesting and rare tumor of the submandibular gland. Int J OrofacBiol 2018;2:56-7.