title: Carcinomas of the submandibular and sublingual glands.
abstract: Neoplasms of the submandibular and sublingual salivary glands are much less numerous than those of the parotid gland, but they are more often malignant: nearly 50% for the submandibular and 80% for the sublingual glands. A submandibular gland origin also imparts to a given carcinoma a higher degree of biologic malignancy than is expressed by similar tumors in the parotid gland.
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008297:Male; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D012468:Salivary Gland Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D013362:Sublingual Gland Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D013365:Submandibular Gland Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*