Resumo:
The present study aimed to study, through immunohistochemistry,
the participation of mast cells in a Warthin tumor series, as well as to
describe their demographic characteristics. The sample consisted of
11 cases of Warthin's tumors. For the evaluation of mast cells, the
immunoreactive cells were quantified to the mast cell tryptase
markers, in 10 fields (400x). The T test and Pearson's correlation
were used for statistical analysis. It was observed in the population,
predominance by the male sex (72.7%), 100% location in the parotid
gland, the treatment was parotidectomy (100%). The analysis of
mast cell expression by statistics (p <0.05), did not reveal a
significant difference between mast cells x age (p 0.69) and mast
cells x gender (p 0.46). The demographic results of the present
study corroborate data found in the literature and point to a possible
participation of mast cells in tumor development.
