Masato Yamaguma,¹ Hideo Kurokawa,² Kuniyuki Matsubara,¹ Shoji Kanda,³ Hiroyuki Takahashi,⁴ Min Zhang,⁵ Sumio Sakoda,² Hiroshi Fukuyama^5
1Department of Dentistry and Oral Surgery, Japanese Seamen’s Relief Association Moji Hospital, Kitakyushu, ²Division of Medicine of Sensory and Motor Organs, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Miyazaki Medical College, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, ³Dental Office of Kanda, Kitakyushu, ⁴Department of Radiology, Japanese Seamen’s Relief Association Moji Hospital, Kitakyushu, and ⁵Division of Oral Pathology,Department of Biosciences, Kyushu Dental College, Kitakyushu, Japan

Abstract
Adenoid cystic carcinoma arising from the anterior third of the tongue, especially from an anterior lingual salivary gland, is extremely rare. An 80-year-old Japanese woman with an adenoid cystic carcinoma arising from an anterior lingual gland is reported.

Key words: Adenoid cystic carcinoma, Anterior lingual gland, Minor salivary glands, Salivary gland neoplasms, Tongue neoplasms

Asian J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2007;19:58-61.