title: [Mucoepidermoid carcinoma appearing synchronously in the lacrimal and salivary glands].
abstract: An 86-year-old woman consulted for a swelling on the palpebral side of the upper eyelid that she had discovered 4 months earlier. Physical examination also revealed a parotid nodule on the same side. Clinical and radiological findings were in favor of a malignant lacrimal tumor. The parotid localization would correspond to either a lymph node metastasis or an intraparotid metastasis or to a primary parotid tumor with salivary metastasis; We discuss these hypotheses in light of the epidemiology, history and clinical and pathology findings.
authors.affiliation: Service de Radiologie, CHU F. Hached, 4000 Sousse, Tunisie.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Amara
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sriha
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bakir
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Turki
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kraiem
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bakir
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D018277:Carcinoma, Mucoepidermoid / Q000556:secondary*; D005134:Eye Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007766:Lacrimal Apparatus Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D010307:Parotid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*