BACKGROUND: Solitary extramedullary plasmacytoma of the parotid gland is a rare condition. Intracytoplasmic Crystalline inclusions in the tumor are even rarer and have been reported only once in the parotid gland. CASE PRESENTATION: We report here, a case of plasmacytoma of the parotid gland with intracellular crystalline inclusions in a 73-year-old woman CONCLUSION: Solitary extramedullary pla...

UNLABELLED The modified rhytidectomy incision is an alternative to the classic cervicomastoidfacial approach for parotid surgery, camouflaging the scar in barely visible areas, resulting in better cosmesis. However, there are very few studies comparing the incidence of complications and functional results of patients submitted to parotidectomy through these two different approaches. OBJECTIVE...

INTRODUCTION Atheroma of the facial artery is an extremely rare disease. CLINICAL FINDINGS/PATIENT CONCERNS Herein, we report an extremely rare case of an atheroma arising from the facial artery, mimicking a parotid gland tumor. DIAGNOSES The preoperative diagnosis was a right-sided parotid gland tumor. INTERVENTIONS We performed removal of the right parotid gland tumor, via a modified fa...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the usefulness and accuracy of fine needle aspiration cytology in the diagnosis of parotid gland tumors. METHODS We reviewed files of all patients who underwent parotidectomy for various parotid pathologies at Aga Khan University Hospital. Study design included a comparison between results of preoperative FNAC with final histopathological diagnosis. Galen & Ganbino metho...

Introduction. Solitary fibrous tumours (SFT) of the parotid gland are a very rare group of spindle-cell tumours with only 28 cases reported in the literature. This review aims to report an additional case of parotid SFT and provide a review of all reported cases of this rare condition. Case Presentation. A 26-year-old male presented a 3 cm well-demarcated, slowly enlarging mass which was comple...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Myoepitheliomas (MEs) are rare tumors of the parotid gland. Only a few case reports describing CT imaging features of ME have been published. The aim of this study was to describe and characterize the CT findings of MEs of the parotid gland. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed CT images of ME with pathologic correlation in 10 cases (4 men and 6 women; age ...

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.

PURPOSE To describe the MR appearance of Warthin tumor and correlate the images with pathologic sections. METHODS MR studies of seven patients with Warthin tumors in the parotid gland were retrospectively reviewed; MR results were compared with pathologic specimens in five instances. FINDINGS One patient had a bilateral tumor; another had three tumors in the right parotid gland and one in t...

Sebaceous lymphadenoma is a rare benign salivary gland tumor of uncertain histogenesis. In this present case report, a 41 year old female presented with swelling of left tail of parotid gland since 3 months. Fine needle aspiration cytology was done followed by histopathological confirmation. Prognosis is excellent following complete surgical excision of the tumor.

parotid stafne bone defect is a very rare and infrequent variant, which is located on the buccal or lingual surface of the mandibular ascending ramus. in this paper, a case of parotid stafne defect, which was incidentally discovered during dental radiographic examination, is reported. this bone defect was observed as a lucent oval-shaped defect on the lingual aspect of the right mandibular ramu...