Case Report : Case report : a rare salivary gland tumor

Salivary duct carcinoma is a distinctive primary neoplasm of the major salivary gland characterized by aggressive behavior with early metastasis, local recurrence and significant mortality. We report a 40 year old male with parotid swelling diagnosed as pleomorphic adenoma, who underwent parotidectomy with modified radical neck dissection and later, on routine histopathology, the swelling was reported as a salivary duct carcinoma, confirmed via immunohistochemistery. Given the relative low occurrence and known difficulty in making an accurate diagnosis using fine needle aspiration cytology, the possibility of salivary duct carcinoma in the appropriate clinical setting of elderly patients with parotid mass and facial palsy should be seriously considered. Rateesh Sareen ( ) Corresponding author: [email protected] Sareen R and Pandey CL. How to cite this article: Case Report: Case report: a rare salivary gland tumor [version 1; referees: 2 approved 2012, :41 (doi: ) with reservations] F1000Research 1 10.12688/f1000research.1-41.v1 © 2012 Sareen R and Pandey CL. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Data associated Licence with the article are available under the terms of the (CC0 1.0 Public domain dedication). Creative Commons Zero "No rights reserved" data waiver The author(s) declared that no grants were involved in supporting this work. Grant information: Competing interests: No competing interests were disclosed. 31 Oct 2012, :41 (doi: ) First published: 1 10.12688/f1000research.1-41.v1 1