title: [Inflammatory pseudotumor of the parotid gland].
abstract: An inflammatory pseudotumor is a rare clinicopathologic condition of unknown etiology and benign course, mimicking sometimes other malignant entities under the clinic and pathologic viewpoint. Our case sitting inside the left parotid salivary gland in an 70-year-old male, was at first diagnosed as epidermoid carcinoma and consequently operated. The biopsy disclose in the mass removed a pseudotumor measuring 3 cm diameter not malignant, lodging inside a microscopic growth of Warthin type. Revue of the literature, of diagnostic findings and mode of management, suggering besides its possible etiopathogenic relation with the inflammatory pseudotumor.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de O.R.L. Hospital Comarcal de la Vega Baja, orihuela,
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hellín Meseguer
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Merino Gälvez
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gil Vélez
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pastor Mas
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Ruíz Macía
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Hernández
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D006104:Granuloma, Plasma Cell / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010306:Parotid Gland / Q000601:surgery* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D010307:Parotid Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery
vernacular_title: Seudotumor inflamatorio de glándula parótida.