A woman presented with painful enlargement of her parotid and submandibular glands. She was shown to have the previously unreported combination of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, Sjögren's syndrome, Hashimoto's disease, and myasthenia gravis. Parotid gland biopsy and bone marrow examination showed the presence of a rare lymphoplasmacytoid lymphoma. There was amyloid deposition in the parot...

Benign parotid neoplasm and inflammatory processes of the parotid resulting in facial paralysis are extremely rare. We report a 72-year-old Malay female with poorly-controlled diabetes mellitus who presented with a painful right parotid swelling associated with right facial nerve palsy. The paralysis (Grade VI, House and Brackmann classification) remained after six months.

Painless swelling of the parotid salivary gland was observed in a patient presenting with secondary syphilis. This case is of special interest to venereologists and surgeons as parotitis associated with syphilis may be mistaken for common tumours of the parotid glands. A diagnosis of syphilitic parotitis should be considered in patients presenting with swollen parotid salivary glands in countri...

INDIAN PEDIATRICS 958 VOLUME 42__SEPTEMBER 17, 2005 Recurrent parotitis, also known as juvenile recurrent parotitis is defined as recurrent parotid inflammation, generally associated with non-obstructive sialectasis of the parotid gland(1). The etiology is not clear and in most cases, symptoms resolve spontaneously after puberty. A 7-year-old boy is presented here who had eight episodes of recu...

A 31-year-old woman had bilateral swelling of the parotid glands at 4 months of pregnancy. MR imaging showed marked enlargement of the parotid glands with increased signal on images with long repetition times. A diagnosis of polycystic disease of the parotid gland was made after biopsy and histologic examination. The radiographic and histologic features of this rare disease are discussed.

The branching pattern of the facial nerve varies among individuals. These variations increase the risk of facial nerve injury during parotid surgery. We report a new variation of the facial nerve and an unusual relationship with the retromandibular vein during parotid surgery.Clinicians should recognize this facial anomaly and the unusual relationship with the retromandibular vein to avoid inju...

Coexistence of parotid tuberculosis along with a benign parotid tumor is a rare entity with only nine cases reported in the literature. We report here a case of primary parotid tuberculosis with concurrent pleomorphic adenoma in a 51-year-old female.

Parotid gland cancer; 3DCRT; Postoperative radiotherapy techniques; Dose distribution Abstract Introduction: Postoperative radiotherapy of the parotid gland could be achieved with various radiotherapy techniques. However they irradiate differently the surrounding organs at risk (OARs) in particular the cochlea, oral cavity & contralateral parotid causing significant increase in the risk of oral...

OBJECTIVE We analyze parotid specimens in patients treated with prophylactic parotidectomy for squamous cell carcinoma of the auricle greater than or equal to 2 cm to determine rates of metastasis and the efficacy of elective resection. STUDY DESIGN Case series with chart review. SETTING Cancer treatment center in Fort Worth, Texas, from 1998 to 2013. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The study includ...

Cholesteatoma is a pathological tissue that may extend into all parts of temporal bone and rarely, as this study highlights, beyond its structures. Nevertheless, the spread outside the mastoid tip into the soft tissues of the neck or parotid space is very rare. The case of 23-year-old male with right parotid mass is presented. The patient had history (2006, 2009, and 2012) of three tympanoplast...