Salivary gland oncocytomas are very rare tumors with very few malignant cases reported in the literature. We present in this work a malignant oncocytoma of the parotid gland, and make a summary of all the accepted criteria in the reviewed publications as definitive of oncocytoma and malignant oncocytoma of the salivary gland, and furthermore we make a differential diagnosis with other neoplasms.