title: Bilateral masseter and internal pterygoid muscle hypertrophy: a diagnostic challenge.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe an unusual case of bilateral masseter and pterygoid muscle hypertrophy.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 53-year-old female patient presented with a bilateral, painless swelling at the parotid areas without improvement after using antibiotics/systemic corticosteroids/nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents. Her medical history included thyroid nodules, but no dental/occlusal disorders were observed. The initial differential diagnosis included salivary gland/jaw bone/masseter pathology, but the CT/MRI revealed only an increase in the size of the masseter and pterygoid muscles. The patient was informed of the benign nature of the swelling and was advised to discontinue the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The bilateral hypertrophy of masseter muscles should be considered in differential diagnosis in cases of unilateral or bilateral swelling of the parotid or lateral mandible area.
authors: Department of Oral Medicine/Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
authors: Dimitrios
authors: D
authors: Andreadis
authors: Florentia
authors: F
authors: Stylianou
authors: Iris
authors: I
authors: Link-Tsatsouli
authors: Anastasios
authors: A
authors: Markopoulos
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006984:Hypertrophy / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008406:Masseter Muscle / Q000473:pathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011626:Pterygoid Muscles / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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