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12-13-2022, 11:07 PM
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Giant Pleomorphic Adenoma of the Parotid Gland
An 83-year-old woman complained of bleeding from a lump on her face. She reported no past illnesses and had not consulted a clinician for ten years apart from traditional healers. She stated that the mass had slowly enlarged over a long period. It had not troubled her until one of the nodular areas had broken down and begun to bleed. Clinical examination on admission revealed an elderly woman with a massive left sided facial tumour (Figure 1). It was nodular, soft to palpation, lobulated, painless, well circumscribed; tensely cystic in places, and had prominent veins surrounding the mass. The ear lobe was displaced upwards and the tumour extended onto the neck. The surface was focally necrotic with bleeding (Figure 1). There were no cranial neuropathies and the remainder of the physical examination was normal. |
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12-14-2022, 01:23 AM
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Re: Giant Pleomorphic Adenoma of the Parotid Gland
That thing in the tray looks like a potato. At first I wasn’t sure what I was even looking at but have decided that it’s definitely an African skinned potato.
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12-14-2022, 07:09 AM
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Re: Giant Pleomorphic Adenoma of the Parotid Gland
Yeah, I've got a huge, mysterious bleeding lump on the side of my face that grows bigger by the day, but, I'll just keep visiting the traditional healers and hope today is the day they can figure it out.
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