Objective To investigate clinic value of real-time shear wave elastography (SWE) in indentifying benign salivary gland mass through measuring tissue elastic properties of the benign mass in salivary gland.Methods Seventy-four patients with benign salivary gland mass were enrolled.All of them have been obtained the average elasticity modulus of the mass by SWE before surgery,including parotid mixed tumor (22),parotid adenolymphoma (13) and sub maxillary gland mixed tumor (6),adenolymphoma (33).Statistical analysis was done between groups.Results The average elasticity modulus in parotid mixed tumor group and sub maxillary gland mixed tumor group exhibited (133.53 ± 3.35)kPa and (125.57 ± 2.89)kPa respectively.The average elasticity modulus in parotid aden lymphoma group and sub maxillary gland adenolymphoma group exhibited (65.60 ± 2.33)kPa and (64.60 ± 1.93)kPa respectively.There was no significant difference between mixed tumor group and there was no significant difference between adenolymphoma group.There were significant differences between mixed tumor group and adenolymphoma group.ConcLusions The SWE can distinguish salivary gland benign mass from different originates,which can provide more evidence for clinical diagnosis.