Chapter 11 Test #3 lecture 3

Question 1

What is the most common salivary neoplasm?

Answer 1

-Pleomorphic adenoma

Question 2

Most parotid tumors turn out to what type of neoplasm?

Answer 2

-Pleomorphic adenoma

Question 3

What is another name for a pleomorphic adenoma?

Answer 3

-Benign Mixed Tumor

Question 4

T/F A pleomorphic adenoma is encapsulated

Answer 4

True

Question 5

What is the other name of an oncocytoma?

Answer 5

-Oxyphilic adenoma

Question 6

What is a benign salivary gland tumor composed of large epithelial cells known as oncocytes?

Answer 6

-Oncocytoma

Question 7

An oncocyte that has swollen granular cytoplasm that is full of what?

Answer 7

-Excessive accumulation of mitochondira

Question 8

What is another name for warthins tumor?

Answer 8

-Papillary Cystadenoma Lymphomatosum

Question 9

What do you almost exclusively see the Warthins tumor?

Answer 9

-Parotid gland

Question 10

What is the second most common benign parotid tumor?

Answer 10

-Warthins Tumor

Question 11

T/F Smokers have an eightfold greater risk of developing a Warthins Tumor

Answer 11

True

Question 12

What are five malignant salivary neoplasms?

Answer 12

• Mucoepidermoid carcinoma
• Acinic cell adenocarcinoma
• Adenoid cystic carcinoma
• Polymorphous low-grade adenocarcinoma
• Malignant mixed tumor

Question 13

What is the most common malignant salivary gland tumor in children?

Answer 13

-Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma

Question 14

What is the most common place that mucoepidermoid carcinoma occurs?

Answer 14

-Parotid gland

Question 15

Where is the second most common place that mucoepidermoid carcinomas occur?

Answer 15

-Palate

Question 16

If you have a low grade mucoepidermoid carcinoma what is the chance of survival?

Answer 16

-90-95%

Question 17

If you have a high grade mucoepidermoid carcinoma what is the chance of survival?

Answer 17

-30-54%

Question 18

Mucoepidermoid carcinoma tumor prognosis depends on what?

Answer 18

-Grade and stage

Question 19

T/F Parotid gland tumors are associated with a poorer prognosis than in submandibular gland tumors

Answer 19

False

-Submandibular gland tumors are associated with a poorer prognosis than parotid gland

Question 20

What is an intraosseous mucoepidermoid carcinoma?

Answer 20

-An ectopic salivary gland tissue that was developmentally entrapped within the jaw

Question 21

What is a low grade malignant neoplasm showing serous acinar differentiation?

Answer 21

-Acinic Cell Adenocarcinoma

Question 22

What is the second most common malignant salivary gland neoplasms?

Answer 22

-Acinic cell Adenocarcinoma

Question 23

What is the most common sight of acinic cell adenocarcinoma?

Answer 23

-Parotid

Question 24

What is the most common malignant salivary gland tumor of the submandibular gland?

Answer 24

-Adenoid cystic carcinoma

Question 25

What are some characteristics of an adenoid cystic carcinoma?

Answer 25

• Slow-growing
• Widely infiltrative
• Tendency for perineural spread
• Pain
• Facial nerve paralysis

Question 26

What is the other name for polymorphous Low-grade adenocarcinoma?

Answer 26

-Terminal Duct Carcinoma

Question 27

Where do polymorphous low-grade adenocarcinomas almost exclusively occur?

Answer 27

-Minor glands

Question 28

T/F carcinoma = epithelial, sarcoma = mesenchymal

Answer 28

True