Author(s)

Jean Valentin Fokouo Fogha, Gisele Alenda Ngulefac, Esthelle Genevieve Stephanie Minka Ngom, Vincent Fonyam, Louis Richard Njock

Douala General Hospital, Douala, Cameroon..

Tumours of minor salivary glands are rare. We report the case of a 58-year-old HIV positive woman with a palatal adenocarcinoma evolving for 15 years, followed by a literature review. The case enlightens on the deleterious effect of delayed specialist consultation, which in our context is multifactorial in origin.

Adenocarcinoma; Minor Salivary Glands; HIV

J. Valentin Fokouo Fogha, G. Alenda Ngulefac, E. Genevieve Stephanie Minka Ngom, V. Fonyam and L. Richard Njock, "Gross Tumour of Minor Salivary Glands in HIV Sero-Positive Patient," International Journal of Clinical Medicine, Vol. 3 No. 3, 2012, pp. 220-222. doi: 10.4236/ijcm.2012.33043.