Congenital Unilateral Agenesis of the Parotid Gland: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Congenital unilateral agenesis of the parotid gland is a rare condition with only few cases reported in the literature. A review of 21 cases in the available literature is presented in this article. We report on a further case of a 34-year-old woman with agenesis of the left parotid gland and lipoma...

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Autores principales: Teymoortash, Afshin, Hoch, Stephan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5118519/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27895943
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/2672496
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description Congenital unilateral agenesis of the parotid gland is a rare condition with only few cases reported in the literature. A review of 21 cases in the available literature is presented in this article. We report on a further case of a 34-year-old woman with agenesis of the left parotid gland and lipoma of the right cheek. Clinicopathological characteristics of described cases in the literature were discussed.
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spelling pubmed-51185192016-11-28 Congenital Unilateral Agenesis of the Parotid Gland: A Case Report and Review of the Literature Teymoortash, Afshin Hoch, Stephan Case Rep Dent Case Report Congenital unilateral agenesis of the parotid gland is a rare condition with only few cases reported in the literature. A review of 21 cases in the available literature is presented in this article. We report on a further case of a 34-year-old woman with agenesis of the left parotid gland and lipoma of the right cheek. Clinicopathological characteristics of described cases in the literature were discussed. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5118519/ /pubmed/27895943 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/2672496 Text en Copyright © 2016 A. Teymoortash and S. Hoch. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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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Congenital Unilateral Agenesis of the Parotid Gland: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
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title_fullStr Congenital Unilateral Agenesis of the Parotid Gland: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
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title_short Congenital Unilateral Agenesis of the Parotid Gland: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_sort congenital unilateral agenesis of the parotid gland: a case report and review of the literature
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