title: [Primary synovial sarcoma of the parotid gland].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Synovial sarcoma is a malignant soft tissue neoplasm which occurs most of the time in teenagers and young adults. Facial, and especially parotid gland localization, is very uncommon.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 15-year-old male patient, with no prior history, was hospitalized for swelling in the left parotid area noted 5 months before. The mass was painful and there was no facial paralysis. A CT scan revealed a tumoral process of mixed density in the left parotid gland. The thorax and abdominal CT scan was normal. The patient was initially treated by surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy. He died, 8 months after this multimodal therapy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Five percent of salivary gland primitive tumors are of mesenchymatous origin, 0.3 to 1.5% of which are sarcomas. The diagnosis of parotid gland synovial sarcoma is confirmed by immune-histochemistry and cytogenetic tests. Surgery combined to radiotherapy seems to be the best treatment.
authors.affiliation: Service de chirurgie plastique et chirurgie maxillofaciale, hôpital militaire d'instruction Mohamed V, Rabat, Maroc. Electronic address: dr.yassineziani@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ziani
authors.affiliation: Service de chirurgie plastique et chirurgie maxillofaciale, hôpital militaire d'instruction Mohamed V, Rabat, Maroc.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Khalfi
authors.affiliation: Service de chirurgie plastique et chirurgie maxillofaciale, hôpital militaire d'instruction Mohamed V, Rabat, Maroc.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Choumi
authors.affiliation: Service d'anatomie pathologique, hôpital militaire d'instruction Mohamed V, Rabat, Maroc.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Boudhas
authors.affiliation: Service d'anatomie pathologique, hôpital militaire d'instruction Mohamed V, Rabat, Maroc.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Al Bouzidi
authors.affiliation: Service de chirurgie plastique et chirurgie maxillofaciale, hôpital militaire d'instruction Mohamed V, Rabat, Maroc.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Abouchadi
authors.affiliation: Service de chirurgie plastique et chirurgie maxillofaciale, hôpital militaire d'instruction Mohamed V, Rabat, Maroc.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Elkhatib
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010306:Parotid Gland / Q000473:pathology; D010307:Parotid Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D013584:Sarcoma, Synovial / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy
keywords: Chirurgie; Glande parotide; Parotid gland; Surgery; Synovial sarcoma; Synovialosarcome
vernacular_title: Synovialosarcome primitif de la glande parotide.