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Ricardo Persaud, MRCS; Tao Upile, FRCS; Stephen Tudge, FRACS; Timothy Beale, FRCR; David Howard, FRCS
Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London, England

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2004;130:1237-1238.

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A 58-year-old Chinese man presented with a 7-year history of prominent soft tissue swellings in the head and neck region. On examination, a 3.0 x 2.5-cm soft mass was palpable in the tail of the right parotid gland, causing displacement of the ear. There was also a 2.0 x 1.5-cm lymph node in the right jugulodigastric area and another soft mass (4.0 x 2.0 cm) superficial to the left masseter muscle. A chest x-ray film demonstrated no abnormalities. The Figure 1 shows the right parotid mass, with involvement of the overlying skin, and the lesion superficial to the left midmasseter muscle. One year earlier, a similar lesion had been removed from the patient's left submandibular triangle, followed by a small palpable recurrence. Interestingly, when the submandibular mass was removed, the other lesions increased in size . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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