Abstract
Salivary gland neoplasms are a relatively uncommon disease, with nearly one case per 100.000 adults estimated per year and an overall incidence of 1% of all neoplasms. The benign neoplasms are majority and the prognosis depends on the histologic type, grade, localization, soft tissue infiltration, regional and distant metastasis. The main treatment is surgery with caution to facial nerve in the major salivary glands, followed by radiotherapy and chemotherapy in selected cases. The objective of this review is to provide the lector an historic approach about salivary gland diseases treatment, with special attention to the parotid neoplasms and its peculiarities associated to those who studied these glands in their history course.
Highlights
Salivary glands neoplasms are relatively rare, corresponding to 1% of all tumors in the USA and 1% of head and neck tumors, affecting 1/100,000 persons per year, varying according to each studied country
The objective of the present review is to provide the lector an historic approach on the treatment of salivary glands diseases, with special attention to parotid gland diseases and particularities of those who studied over the years those diseases
We can quote Rhazi[7] that brilliantly described facial paralysis very similar to nowadays Bell’s paralysis, Avicenna[8] (IbnSina 980-1037 AC), that described in his third book from “Canon of Medicine” the finding of ranula under the tongue as a mass similar to a frog, and described other oral cavity tumors, and Abulcasis[9] (Al Zahrawi 936-1013 AC), that described in his encyclopedia “Al-Tasrif” the ranula, a structure similar to a frog: “it is a tumor similar to a frog generated by pure expectoration or by expectoration mixed with black material; its signal is a whitish color with moist expectoration and its dark mixed color is characterized as black, rigid and with low humidity”. It follows a long dark period of Eastern medicine, with no or very few reports about salivary glands, probably due to a historical moment when very few had knowledge, that was restricted to monasteries protected by feudal lords, that were isolated fearing barbarian invasions
Summary
Giulianno Molina Melo, TCBC-SP1; Onivaldo Cervantes[1]; Marcio Abrahao[1]; Luciene Covolan[2]; Elenn Soares Ferreira[2]; Heloisa Allegro Baptista[3]
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