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Hari Nadiminti, BS; Giovana R. Thomas, MD; Jacinto Regalado, MD
University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Fla

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2004;130:474.

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A 79-year-old white man presented with an 8-month history of a painful, slowly enlarging facial mass. Several months earlier, he had developed persistent pain in the left facial and temporal regions that was unassociated with eating. He denied facial weakness, change in mass size with food intake, otalgia, otorrhea, fever, or chills. His medical history was significant for basal cell carcinoma on the skin of the shoulder and squamous cell carcinoma on the skin of the hand, both of which had been diagnosed and excised 6 years earlier, without recurrence. He had a 30 pack-year history of tobacco use and worked as a cook. Physical examination revealed a fixed, firm, nontender, 4 x 4-cm mass in the left parotid gland, with no overlying skin lesion. Medial bulging of the ipsilateral cartilaginous ear canal was noted on otoscopic examination. Cranial nerves . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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