Abstract
Mucoepidermoid carcinoma is a rare tumor of the head and neck area which is composed of both a mucous cell part and an epidermoid cell part. Twenty-one patients with mucoepidermoid carcinoma were retrospectively reviewed regarding sex, origin, treatment, histopathologic grading and treatment outcomes. The carcinoma originated in the major salivary gland in 12 cases, in the oral cavity in 3 cases, in the paranasal cavity in 3 cases and in the oropharynx in 3 cases. Of these 21 patients, 19 underwent curative treatments and thus were investigated in detail. The overall 3 year survival rate was 66 percent. Histopathologically, this carcinoma has been classified into well, intermediate or poorly differentiated types. All 19 of the above cases also demonstrated a high grade type carcinoma.
