Table III. Follow-up of the 30 patients over 75 years old.
| Infection & sialoadenosis (2) | Benign tumours (6) | Malignant tumours (22) | ||||||||
| Adenoma | Enameloblastoma | Melanoma | Carcinoma | Merkel’s Tumour | ||||||
| Pleomorphic | Monomorphic | Direct infiltration | N | Direct infiltration | Primary | Secondary | ||||
| Warthin’sTumour | Others | ♂ 82 y. DWD after 4 years | ♂ 76 y. DOD after 3 years | ♂ 89 y.DOD after 3 years | s.c.c.♀ 79 y. DOD after 1 year | N | Direct infiltration | N | ||
| m.c. ♂ 80 y. NED after 5 years | ♂ 78 y. NED after 2 years | Squamous cell carcinoma | ♀ 75 y. NED after 2 years | |||||||
| s.c.c.♀ 87 y. DOD after 2 years | ♂ 77 y. AWD after 2 years | ♂ 86 y. D in p.o.p. | ||||||||
| s.c.c. ♂ 88 y. DWD after 1 year | ♂ 94 y. DWD after 4 years | ♂ 76 y. D in p.o.p. | ||||||||
| No recurrence and no influence on survival | ♀ 76 y. DOD after 2 years | s.c.c. ♂ 76 y. NED after 2 years | ♂ 83 y. DWD after 8 months | ♂ 78 y. DWD after 3 years | ||||||
| u.c. ♂ 78 y. NED after 1 year | ♀ 92 y. NED after 1 year | ♂ 76 y. DWD after 2 years | ||||||||
| ♀ 85 y. D in p.o.p. | Basal cell carcinoma | |||||||||
| ♂ 80 y.NED after 2 years | ||||||||||
| ♂ 80 y.NED after 4 years | ||||||||||
DWD: Died Without Disease; DOD: Died Of Disease; NED = No Evident Disease; AWD = Alive With Disease; D in p.o.p. = Died in post-operative period; s.c.c. = squamous cell carcinoma; m.c. = mucoepidermoid carcinoma; u.c. = undifferentiated carcinoma