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Rony Aouad, MD; Nayla Matar, MD; Claude Sader-Ghorra, MD; Amine Haddad, MD
Hotel Dieu de France Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2008;134(4):446.

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A 38-year-old man presented with a 3-month history of a painless, slow-growing mass of the left parotid gland, without any inflammatory cutaneous signs or facial weakness. He had no history of smoking or alcohol use. Physical examination revealed a 4.0 x 3.5-cm nontender, soft, mobile mass in the preauricular region of the left parotid gland. There was no evidence of adhesion to the overlying skin or palpable lymph nodes. Facial mobility was normal. The findings of cervical ultrasonography supported a diagnosis of hemangioma. A computed tomographic scan with contrast showed a 3.8 x 3.2 x 2.2-cm well-circumscribed parotid mass of the left superficial lobe, with intense, nearly homogeneous enhancement (Figure 1) and only a small focus of low-density fat in the deep portion of the tumor. Magnetic resonance imaging with gadolinium demonstrated a heterogeneous mass with . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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