abstract we report a 30 year old woman who presented with a painless preauricular mass of two months duration. superficial parotidectomy was performed for the patient. histological examination and immunohistochemical findings were in favor of mixed cellularity hodgkin’s lymphoma (mchd). according to this diagnosis the patient received local radiotherapy and during 4 months of follow-up no recur...

BACKGROUND Radiation of the central nervous system in patients with demyelinating disease may have deleterious effects. OBJECTIVE To describe a 30-year-old woman with multiple sclerosis who developed an attack of demyelination 2 months following radiotherapy for a parotid malignancy. RESULTS Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated new hyperintense lesions that corresponded to both the local...

A case of oncocytic metaplasia obstructing the Eustachian tube in an elderly patient is described. Histologically, it was similar to Warthin's tumour of the parotid gland. The lymphocytes were predominantly T cell, unlike those of Warthin's tumour which are predominantly B cell. It is proposed that oncocytic metaplasia represents an early stage in the evolution of Warthin's tumour.

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to prospectively evaluate the scintigraphic results on patients who undergo intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) to investigate the tolerance doses for the salivary glands. METHODS Salivary scintigraphy was performed on 35 patients with head and neck cancer before the beginning of radiotherapy (RT), and then at 6 weeks and again at 3 months after th...

OBJECTIVES To determine the diagnostic accuracy of fine needle aspiration (FNA) for detecting malignant parotid tumors. Methods: We conducted a retrospective study of all patients diagnosed with benign or malignant parotid gland tumors in King Abdulaziz University Hospital,  Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, between January 2004 and May 2015. The records of 65 subjects were obtained. Histopathological find...

OBJECTIVES Acinic cell carcinoma (AciCC) is a rarely encountered malignancy in parotid gland. Because AciCC is rare and was recently recognized as the entity of malignancy, AciCC has been difficult to study. We aimed to analyze the diagnosis and treatment experience for this malignancy in our hospital. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed medical records of the 20 patients with AciCC of paroti...

Purpose To explore the distribution of node spread from lymphoepithelial-like carcinoma (LELC) of the parotid gland based on the 2013 updated guidelines for neck node levels. Results 42 (58.3%) cases had metastatic nodes, all were localized at the ipsilateral neck. The detailed distribution was: level Ia 0, level Ib 6(14.3%), level II 34 (80.1%), level III 16 (38.1%), level IV 9 (21.4%), leve...

BACKGROUND Radiation-induced parotid damage is a common complication in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) treated with radiotherapy to head and neck region, which severely reduce the life quality of those patients. The aim of this study was to early evaluate the changes of irradiated parotid glands with T2 mapping and mDIXON Quant imaging. METHODS Forty-one patients with NPC underw...