Abstract
Basal cell adenoma (BCA) of parotid gland is a rare tumor and was first separated from pleomorphic adenoma by Kleinsasser and Klein in 1967. The incidence reported in most literatures was about 1-3%. From Mar., 1991 to Aug., 1993 in Veterans General Hospital-Kaohsiung, we collected 7 basal cell adenomas from 91 parotid gland tumors. The incidence was higher (7.7%) than those reported in the past the average age of the patients with BCA was older than that of all patients with parotid gland tumors (68.4- vs. 58.1-year-old); and the average greatest dimension of BCA was smaller than that of all parotid gland tumors (2.08 vs. 3.09 cm). No BCA invasion to the facial nerve was observed. All BCA patients received complete resection of the tumor either by parotidetomy or simple enucleation and no recurrence was noted.
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