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Renal carcinoma metastasis to the parotid gland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

P. Pisani*
Affiliation:
ENT Department, Ospedale Maggiore—Novara (Italy).
G. Angeli
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, Ospedale Maggiore—Novara (Italy).
M. Krengli
Affiliation:
Radiotherapy Department, Ospedale Maggiore—Novara (Italy).
F. Pia
Affiliation:
ENT Department, Ospedale Maggiore—Novara (Italy).
*
Dott. Paolo Pisani, via Greppi 9, 28100—Novara (Italy)

Abstract

Metastatic tumours in major salivary glands are uncommon with a higher incidence of primary sites from the head and neck. The lungs and breast are the common primary sites, while metastases from the kidney are very rarely found. The authors describe a case of renal clear-cell carcinoma with metastastis to the parotid gland. The incidence of a metastasis in the parotid gland from a primary renal carcinoma, even if rare, should not be overlooked in making a correct differential diagnosis with acinic cell carcinoma and monomorphic clear cell adenoma.

Type
Clinical Records
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1990

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Footnotes

Paper presented at ‘First European Congress of Oto-rhino-laryngology and cervico-facial surgery’, Paris, 26-29 September 1988.

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