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Adenolymphoma of the tonsillar fossa

ADENOLYMPHOMA is a distinctive tumour which is relatively uncommon, accounting for only about 6 per cent of all epithelial neoplasms of the salivary glands (Foote and Frazell, 1954). It may develop at any age, but is commonest in middle-aged males (Foote and Frazell, 1954; Patey, 1965). The vast majority occur in relation to the lower pole of the parotid gland, and these parotid tumours are at times multiple and may be bilateral (Patey, 1965). A few of these tumours related to the submandibular gland have been reported (Gaston and Tedeschi, 1946; Kukreja and Jain, 1971) although it has been suggested that such tumours have really arisen in that part of the parotid adjacent to the submandibular gland (Thompson and Bryant, 1950). However, four cases have been reported in lymph nodes outside the immediate vicinity of the parotid (Bernier and Bhaskar, 1958). Adenolymphomas of the minor salivary glands are extremely rare, but a case has been recorded in the lip (Veronesi and Corbetta, i960), and another in the submucosa of the cheek (Hart and Andrews, 1968). The present case is that of an adenolymphoma occurring in the tonsillar fossa.