OBJECTIVES To present case vignettes of unusual pediatric parotid pathologies and discuss management paradigms in the context of these lesions. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective case series. SETTING Free-standing, academic tertiary care pediatric hospital. METHODS All patients over the past 18 months undergoing parotidectomy for a parotid mass were reviewed (N=5). RESULTS Ages ranged from 17 m...

introduction: intraparotid neurofibromas of the facial nerve are extremely rare and mostly associated with neurofibromatosis type 1 (nf1). case report: this is a case of a healthy 40-year-old man, which underwent surgery for a preoperatively diagnosed benign parotid gland lesion. after identification of the facial nerve main trunk, a single large mass (6 x 3 cm) incorporating the upper nerve di...

Primary Hodgkin's lymphoma of the parotid gland is rare. A twenty-one-year-old man presented with a lesion that recurred two years after an excisional biopsy for a parotid gland mass. He underwent superficial parotidectomy. Frozen section examination suggested a diagnosis of Hodgkin's lymphoma. The patient was treated by radiotherapy. A complete recovery was obtained after a 27-month follow-up.

Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma on the parotid gland is a relatively rare occurrence among head and neck tumors. The mass of parotid gland lymphoma cannot be distinguished from other benign masses of the parotid gland; therefore, it is important to consider lymphoma in the differential diagnosis when examining parotid swellings and masses. Parotid gland lymphoma is most likely to be B-cell, non-Hodgkin'...

Objectives: The aim of this paper is to establish a correct approach to the diagnosis of a primary malignant melanoma of the parotid gland. Methods: We present a case of a patient with a painless mass situated in the left parotid region after an initial cytological and radiological study suggesting a Warthin tumor whose treatment involved a total parotidectomy with a facial nerve reconstruction...

introduction: the preoperative diagnostic evaluation of the parotid lesion is a valuable aid in planning the operation and the approach to intervention. among different diagnostic tools, fine needle aspiration has a key role. however, the exact efficacy of this technique in our center had not been thoroughly investigated. materials and methods: between january 2000 and june 2007 a subset of 64 ...

Overall salivary gland tumours are rare, comprising of less than 3% of overall head and neck neoplasms. Parotid gland is the most common site for the benign salivary gland neoplasm. Usually they are painless slow growing lesion involving the superficial or deep part of the gland and can severely affect the facial nerve functioning. Treatment mainly comprises of surgical excision with preservati...

Introduction: The preoperative diagnostic evaluation of the parotid lesion is a valuable aid in planning the operation and the approach to intervention. Among different diagnostic tools, Fine Needle Aspiration has a key role. However, the exact efficacy of this technique in our center had not been thoroughly investigated. Materials and Methods: Between January 2000 and June 2007 a subset of ...

Sebaceous adenomas of the major salivary glands are uncommon tumors. Although sebaceous differentiation within the major salivary glands is a frequent histopathologic finding (approximately 20% to 42% of parotid glands), sebaceous neoplasms of salivary gland origin are not. A number of publications review the clinical and histologic features of sebaceous neoplasms, however, these reports focus ...