Table 1.

Mucoepidermoid carcinomas

Source	Age, years	Gender	Site	Duration	Size, cm	Bone/LN Involvement	Histologic grade	Treatment	Recurrence/Interval	Follow-up
Tipton [10]	1.5	Male	Buccal mucosa	NS	1.0	NS	Poorly differentiated	Wide local excision	No	NED 6 years
Budnick [11]	12	Female	Hard palate	NS	2.0	Bone: NSLN: NS	Low	Excision down to bone	No	NED 3 years
Gustafsson et al. [12]	13	Female	Hard palate	2 months	1.5	Bone: NoLN: NS	Low	Resection of the tumor	No	NED 1.5 years
Lack and Upton [13]	18	Female	Upper lipa	NS	NS	Bone: NSLN: NS	Low to focally intermediate	Near total maxillectomy	No	NED 8 years
Fonseca et al. [1]	14	Male	Soft palate	NS	NS	Bone: NSLN: No	Low	1st surgery2nd surgery	Yes/5 years	NED, NS
Fonseca et al. [1]	14	Female	Soft palate	NS	NS	Bone: NSLN: No	Low	Surgery	No	NED 6 months
April et al. [14]	10	Female	Junction of the hard/soft palate	Nasal congestion × 1 month	0.5	Bone: erosion into left naresLN: No	Intermediate	NS	NS	NS
Aguiar et al. [15]	13	Female	Junction of the hard/soft palate	7 months	3.0	Bone: NoLN: No	NS	Excision	No	NED 4 months
Winslow et al. [16]	10	Female	Buccal mucosa	NS	NS	Bone: NoLN: No	Intermediate	Wide local excision	NS	NS
Flaitz [17]	8	Male	Hard palate	9 months	2.0	Bone: NoLN: No	Low	Wide local excision down to periosteum	NS	NS
Caccamese and Ord [18]	17	Male	Left junction of the hard/soft palate	NS	1.5	Bone: NoLN: No	Low	Local resection	No	NED 94 months
Caccamese and Ord [18]	14	Female	Hard palate	1 month	1.0	Bone: NoLN: No	Low to intermediate	Excision	No	NED 62 months
Caccamese and Ord [18]	22b	Male	Palate, NOS	7 years	2.0	Bone: NoLN: No	Low	Excision with 1.0cm margins	No	NED 34 months
Caccamese and Ord [18]	16	Female	Junction of the soft palate and anterior pillar	1 year	2.5	Bone: NoLN: No	Low to intermediate	Local resection	No	NED 42 months
Moraes et al. [19]	14	Female	Left hard palate	1 year	5	Bone: YesLN: No	Low	Transoral resection	No	NED 4 years
LSUSD	15	Female	Left hard palate	3 weeks	NS	Bone: NoLN: No	Low	Excision	No	NED 21 years
LSUSD	14	Female	Right hard palate	NS	3.0	Bone: YesLN: NS	Low	Excision	No	NED 19 years
LSUSD	15	Female	Left hard palate	NS	NS	Bone: NSLN: NS	Low	NS	No	NED 9 years
LSUSD	18	Female	Left hard palate	3 weeks	NS	Bone: NSLN: NS	Low	Excision	No	NED 8 years
LSUSD	19	Male	Right junction of the hard/soft palate	‘Forever’	2.0	Bone: NoLN: NoLungs: No	Low to intermediate	Wide surgical excision with ‘alveolar bone biopsy’	No	NED 2 years

^aReported as ‘buccal sulcus anteriorly in the premaxillary area’. ^bLesion followed for seven years (since the age of 15). LSUSD, Louisiana State University School of Dentistry; LN, lymph node; NED, no evidence of disease; NOS, not further specified; NS, not stated.