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Giant Warthin’s Tumour of the Parotid Gland: A Rare Case Report

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Warthin’s tumour was first adequately described in 1929 by an American pathologist, Aldred Scott Warthin. It is synonymous with papillary cystadenoma lymphomatosum (PCL), cystadenolymphoma or adenolymphoma. Giant salivary gland tumours are usually pleomorphic adenomas. The average size of Warthin’s tumour is reported to be about 2–4 cm. In the current fascinating case, an enormous disfiguring salivary gland tumour was reported which turned out to be Warthin’s tumour on histopathology, which is probably the largest PCL reported till date.

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  1. Neha Salaria

    Present address: Department of ENT-HNS, BPS Government Medical College for Women, Khanpur Kalan, Sonepat, Haryana, 131305, India

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  1. Department of ENT-HNS, BPS Government Medical College for Women, Khanpur Kalan, Sonepat, Haryana, 131305, India

    Neha Salaria, Uma Garg, Surender Kumar, Deepak Verma & Naveen Sharma

  2. CT/MRI Division, Healthmap Diagnostics Pvt Ltd, BPS Govt Medical College for Women, Khanpur Kalan, Sonepat, Haryana, 131305, India

    Kulvinder Singh

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Salaria, N., Garg, U., Kumar, S. et al. Giant Warthin’s Tumour of the Parotid Gland: A Rare Case Report. Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 71 (Suppl 1), 839–843 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12070-019-01675-1

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