Epidermal Cyst of Parotid Gland: A Rarity and a Diagnostic Dilemma

Epidermal cysts are common skin lesions but they occur very rarely in the oral cavity, especially in the salivary glands. Very few cases have been reported in the literature and, here, we present one such rare case of epidermal cyst in the right parotid gland in a 62-year-old female patient.

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Autores principales: Ganesan, Anuradha, Nandakumar, Gautham Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4299792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25628900
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/856170
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spelling pubmed-42997922015-01-27 Epidermal Cyst of Parotid Gland: A Rarity and a Diagnostic Dilemma Ganesan, Anuradha Nandakumar, Gautham Kumar Case Rep Dent Case Report Epidermal cysts are common skin lesions but they occur very rarely in the oral cavity, especially in the salivary glands. Very few cases have been reported in the literature and, here, we present one such rare case of epidermal cyst in the right parotid gland in a 62-year-old female patient. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-01-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4299792/ /pubmed/25628900 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/856170 Text en Copyright © 2015 A. Ganesan and G. K. Nandakumar. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Epidermal Cyst of Parotid Gland: A Rarity and a Diagnostic Dilemma
title_fullStr Epidermal Cyst of Parotid Gland: A Rarity and a Diagnostic Dilemma
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title_short Epidermal Cyst of Parotid Gland: A Rarity and a Diagnostic Dilemma
title_sort epidermal cyst of parotid gland: a rarity and a diagnostic dilemma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4299792/
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