Particularities of pleomorphic adenoma of the parotid gland. Statistical data for the time period 2017-2022

The morbidity of benign and malignant tumors is constantly increasing. Pleomorphic adenoma is the most common benign salivary tumor, affecting the parotid gland. Its anatomical, histopathological and clinical characteristics, such as its location close to the facial nerve, the cellular pleomorphism, the incomplete capsule, the long asymptomatic evolution and the complications that may occur give it particularities that must be known before performing the surgical intervention. The study was conducted on a sample of 46 people hospitalized with benign parotid tumors in the Department of OMF Surgery of IMSP IMU, in the period 2017—2022, of which 41 patients were diagnosed with pleomorphic adenoma — 89.13%. The average age was 47.5 years, the highest frequency of adenoma being in the age group of 40-49 years. The distribution according to sex determined a slight prevalence in favor of the males — 53.65% of the total, the predisposition to predominantly affect the right or left parotid gland was not determined. Thus, the obtained data confirm the data from the specialized literature, which ranks the pleomorphic adenoma as the most common benign parotid tumor, the occurrence rate increasing with age.