Parotid Mass in an 81-Year-Old Woman

Emma De Ravin; Juan Carlos Marrero Berrios; Karthik Rajasekaran

doi:10.1001/jamaoto.2022.2249

Parotid Mass in an 81-Year-Old Woman

JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2022 Oct 1;148(10):981-982. doi: 10.1001/jamaoto.2022.2249.

Authors

Emma De Ravin^{1

2}, Juan Carlos Marrero Berrios³, Karthik Rajasekaran¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
² Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
³ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

PMID: 35951315
DOI: 10.1001/jamaoto.2022.2249

No abstract available

Plain language summary

An 81-year-old woman presented with a 3-month history of a slow-growing mass in her left cheek and denied having any symptoms, tenderness, numbness, or facial nerve weakness. What is your diagnosis?

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged, 80 and over
Female
Humans
Parotid Gland*
Parotid Neoplasms* / diagnostic imaging
Parotid Neoplasms* / surgery