Stensen's duct is rarely a primary site for a salivary neoplasm (11 examples in the English-language literature from 1927 to 1984). Bereft of myoepithelium, the neoplasms are histologically malignant and have been of mucoepidermoid, squamous, or undifferentiated types. Surgical management is predicated on the location and stage of the carcinoma.
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