Cystic parotid lesions

Last revised by Yahya Baba on 7 Jul 2022

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Citation:

Gaillard F, Baba Y, Bell D, et al. Cystic parotid lesions. Reference article, Radiopaedia.org (Accessed on 04 Dec 2023) https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-1196

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-1196

Permalink:

https://radiopaedia.org/articles/1196

rID:

1196

Article created:

2 May 2008, Frank Gaillard ◈

Disclosures:

At the time the article was created Frank Gaillard had no recorded disclosures.

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Last revised:

7 Jul 2022, Yahya Baba ◉

Disclosures:

At the time the article was last revised Yahya Baba had no financial relationships to ineligible companies to disclose.

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Revisions:

11 times, by 6 contributors - see full revision history and disclosures

Systems:

Head & Neck

Sections:

Gamuts

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Synonyms:

Parotid cysts
Parotid cystic mass
Parotid cystic lesions

The differential for cystic parotid lesions includes:

bilateral cystic parotid lesions
- Warthin tumor
- benign lymphoepithelial lesions of HIV
- Sjögren syndrome
- sialoceles
- dysgenetic polycystic disease of salivary glands

unilateral cystic parotid lesion(s)
- Warthin tumor
- sialocele
- first branchial cleft cyst
- parotid cystic lymphangioma
- parotid mature cystic teratoma ⁴
- benign lymphoepithelial cyst
- necrotic lymph node(s): especially from squamous cell carcinoma
- infected lymph node(s)