Open AccessGiant Warthin’s Tumour of the Parotid Gland: A Rare Case Report
Author(s) -
Neha Salaria,
Uma Garg,
Surender Kumar,
Deepak Kumar Verma,
Naveen Sharma,
K. Sampath Kumar Singh
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.229
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 2231-3796
pISSN - 0973-7707
DOI - 10.1007/s12070-019-01675-1
Subject(s) - adenolymphoma , histopathology , parotid gland , medicine , salivary gland , otorhinolaryngology , pathology , pleomorphic adenoma , head and neck , surgery
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.