Table 2.
Locations and sex distribution in 5015 salivary gland tumors.
| Locations | Benign | (M/F) | Malignant | (M/F) | Total | (B/M) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | |||||
| Major salivary glands (n = 4318) | ||||||||
| Parotid | 1632 | 1384 | 1.2 | 267 | 222 | 1.2 | 3505 | 6.2 |
| Submandibular | 209 | 367 | 0.6 | 84 | 87 | 0.9 | 747 | 3.4 |
| Sublingual | 6 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 1.2 | 32 | 0.3 |
| NOS | 8 | 18 | 0.4 | 5 | 3 | 1.7 | 34 | 3.3 |
| Minor salivary glands (n = 697) | ||||||||
| Palatal | 98 | 146 | 0.7 | 54 | 71 | 0.8 | 369 | 2.0 |
| Upper lip | 23 | 32 | 0.7 | 6 | 11 | 0.5 | 72 | 3.2 |
| Lower lip | 7 | 4 | 1.8 | 4 | 8 | 0.5 | 23 | 0.9 |
| Buccal | 10 | 29 | 0.3 | 11 | 33 | 0.3 | 83 | 0.9 |
| Lingual | 4 | 3 | 1.3 | 14 | 21 | 0.7 | 42 | 0.2 |
| Floor of mouth | 2 | 6 | 0.3 | 33 | 24 | 1.4 | 65 | 0.1 |
| Retro-molar | 2 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 1.4 | 26 | 0.2 |
| NOS | 4 | 0 | - | 5 | 8 | 0.6 | 17 | 0.3 |
| Total | 2005 | 1993 | 509 | 508 | 5015 | 4.0 | ||
Abbreviations: M: male; F: female; M/F: ratios of male to female; B/M: ratios of benign to malignant; NOS: not otherwise specified.