Case Report: Tuberculous Parotitis.

Lee, So Yeon; Lee, Won Jae; Park, Beyoung Yun

Case Report

Journal of the Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons 2002;29(6):575-578.
Published online November 1, 2002.

Case Report: Tuberculous Parotitis.

So Yeon Lee, Won Jae Lee, Beyoung Yun Park

Institute of Human Tissue Restoration, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. pswjlee@yumc.yonsei.ac.kr

Abstract

Tuberculous parotitis is a rare disease even in the endemic areas. Clinically it is usually presented as a slowly growing local mass over the parotid area, mimicking a benign neoplasm of parotid gland. Also it rarely accompanies respiratory or systemic symptoms such as fever, night sweat, or weight loss, which make the preoperative diagnosis of tuberculous parotitis even more difficult. Preoperative diagnostic studies such as sialography, ultrasonography or CT scan also provides nonspecific findings that have little contribution to the diagnosis. Less than 100 cases of tuberculous parotitis has been reported in the worldwide literatures and moreover, cases that were diagnosed tuberculous parotitis before pathologic confirmation are hard to find. In our department, superficial parotidectomy was performed on a patient with a mass over her right parotid area, and the mass was pathologically diagnosed tuberculous parotitis.

Keywords: Tuberculosis; Parotitis