In the period 1970-1987 101 patients were seen with a neoplasm of the intraoral accessory salivary glands. There was no sex preference; mean age of the patients was 51 years. The junction of the hard and soft palates is a site of predilection. Over 50 per cent of these tumours are malignant, the adenoid cystic carcinoma being the most notorious. Treatment consists primarily in surgical removal. In case of malignancy postoperative radiotherapy is often instituted, resulting in local cure in almost all cases. However, the prognosis of the malignant salivary gland tumours, especially of the adenoid cystic carcinoma, is rather unfavourable due to distant metastases.