Salivary gland tumors are uncommon and constitute a highly heterogeneous histopathological group of neoplasms. The present study aims to determine the correlation between cytological findings parotid tumors, preservation facial posterior branch greater auricular nerve during surgery. A 21 cases was conducted at our hospital- GMERS Medical College Civil Hospital, Valsad. All them were clinically...

INTRODUCTION In most parts of the world, acute parotid abscess is a rare pathology. It occurs mainly in elderly debilitated patients and patients with oral sepsis. In Singapore, this lesion appears to be more common. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed all patients admitted to our hospital over a three-year period with parotid abscess. RESULTS Ten patients were treated for parotid abscess. ...

Myxofibrosarcoma has been recently described as a distinct histological entity and commonly affects the extremities and trunk of the elderly. It is, however, rare in the head and neck (2.8%) region, and we are unaware of any reports of it presenting as a parotid mass. The epitheloid variant accounts for less than 3% of myxofibrosarcomas. We report a case of a 78/F presenting with an epitheloid ...

Congenital unilateral agenesis of the parotid gland is a rare condition with only few cases reported in the literature. A review of 21 cases in the available literature is presented in this article. We report on a further case of a 34-year-old woman with agenesis of the left parotid gland and lipoma of the right cheek. Clinicopathological characteristics of described cases in the literature wer...

Blunt trauma to the parotid gland is extremely rare and requires considerable force. We present a unique case in which a child sustained parotid injury without any associated injury to the facial skeleton, parotid gland and ductal structures and managed successfully. A literature search revealed that this type of injury has not been reported previously.

Lipoma rarely involves parotid gland especially in children. An 11-year-old boy presented with right parotid swelling. Preoperative workup including CT scan and FNAC gave suspicion of parotid gland lipoma. The diagnosis was confirmed on histopathology after complete excision of the mass.

Propranolol has emerged as a new treatment option for infantile hemangiomas. We describe a 20-month-old boy with a large right parotid hemangioma diagnosed at the age of 37 days. Starting at the age of 2.5 months, he received oral propranolol for 6.5 months. Although the mass regressed, it recurred when propranolol was discontinued. He was successfully retreated at the age of 11 months with pro...

BACKGROUND There is only one previous case report of a poorly differentiated carcinoma arising from an adenolymphoma of the parotid gland (Warthin's tumour). The absence of clinical symptoms, and the aspecificity of the radiological pattern make the diagnosis very difficult. CASE PRESENTATION We here report the case of a 73-year-old man with Warthin's tumour who was brought to our attention b...

In the following paper a series of cases is described of recurrent swelling of the parotid gland of a type which hitherto has not been clearly recognized. Recurrent swelling, the result of infections of the gland or its ducts is well known as in the cases reported by Payne7 and Pyrah"'. In the eleven cases now to be described infection seems to play but a small part in the etiology of the condi...

The objective of this nationwide study was to assess the association between cellular phone use and development of parotid gland tumors (PGTs). The methods were based on the international INTERPHONE study that aimed to evaluate possible adverse effects of cellular phone use. The study included 402 benign and 58 malignant incident cases of PGTs diagnosed in Israel at age 18 years or more, in 200...