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Calcification in Salivary Gland Cancer Mimicking Sialolithiasis—A Diagnostic Pitfall on Imaging: Report of Two Cases and Brief Review of the Literature
Objectives: Sialolithiasis is the most common cause of calcifications detected with ultrasound in patients with chronic inflammatory symptoms and swellings of the salivary glands. Other differential diagnoses of calcifications are extremely rare and mostly benign. Methods: Case report and literature...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9224696/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35743400 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm11123329 |
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author | Thimsen, Vivian Fauck, Vanessa Wiesmüller, Marco Agaimy, Abbas Schapher, Mirco Iro, Heinrich Koch, Michael Mantsopoulos, Konstantinos |
author_facet | Thimsen, Vivian Fauck, Vanessa Wiesmüller, Marco Agaimy, Abbas Schapher, Mirco Iro, Heinrich Koch, Michael Mantsopoulos, Konstantinos |
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description | Objectives: Sialolithiasis is the most common cause of calcifications detected with ultrasound in patients with chronic inflammatory symptoms and swellings of the salivary glands. Other differential diagnoses of calcifications are extremely rare and mostly benign. Methods: Case report and literature review. Results: Two rare cases of malignant parotid gland tumors with calcifications in a localization typical for sialolithiasis, which were mistaken for salivary calculi based on image findings, are presented. Conclusions: This report intends to highlight the pitfalls in the imaging of parotid gland diseases. Even if malignant tumors of the parotid gland with calcifications are extremely rare, in ambiguous cases, differential diagnoses should be considered carefully. A high suspicion index of the need for further diagnostics in cases with calcifications is practical and could include missing periprandial symptoms, no obstruction signs in the proximal duct, and missing evidence of sialolithiasis in sialendoscopy. |
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spelling | pubmed-92246962022-06-24 Calcification in Salivary Gland Cancer Mimicking Sialolithiasis—A Diagnostic Pitfall on Imaging: Report of Two Cases and Brief Review of the Literature Thimsen, Vivian Fauck, Vanessa Wiesmüller, Marco Agaimy, Abbas Schapher, Mirco Iro, Heinrich Koch, Michael Mantsopoulos, Konstantinos J Clin Med Case Report Objectives: Sialolithiasis is the most common cause of calcifications detected with ultrasound in patients with chronic inflammatory symptoms and swellings of the salivary glands. Other differential diagnoses of calcifications are extremely rare and mostly benign. Methods: Case report and literature review. Results: Two rare cases of malignant parotid gland tumors with calcifications in a localization typical for sialolithiasis, which were mistaken for salivary calculi based on image findings, are presented. Conclusions: This report intends to highlight the pitfalls in the imaging of parotid gland diseases. Even if malignant tumors of the parotid gland with calcifications are extremely rare, in ambiguous cases, differential diagnoses should be considered carefully. A high suspicion index of the need for further diagnostics in cases with calcifications is practical and could include missing periprandial symptoms, no obstruction signs in the proximal duct, and missing evidence of sialolithiasis in sialendoscopy. MDPI 2022-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9224696/ /pubmed/35743400 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm11123329 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Case Report Thimsen, Vivian Fauck, Vanessa Wiesmüller, Marco Agaimy, Abbas Schapher, Mirco Iro, Heinrich Koch, Michael Mantsopoulos, Konstantinos Calcification in Salivary Gland Cancer Mimicking Sialolithiasis—A Diagnostic Pitfall on Imaging: Report of Two Cases and Brief Review of the Literature |
title | Calcification in Salivary Gland Cancer Mimicking Sialolithiasis—A Diagnostic Pitfall on Imaging: Report of Two Cases and Brief Review of the Literature |
title_full | Calcification in Salivary Gland Cancer Mimicking Sialolithiasis—A Diagnostic Pitfall on Imaging: Report of Two Cases and Brief Review of the Literature |
title_fullStr | Calcification in Salivary Gland Cancer Mimicking Sialolithiasis—A Diagnostic Pitfall on Imaging: Report of Two Cases and Brief Review of the Literature |
title_full_unstemmed | Calcification in Salivary Gland Cancer Mimicking Sialolithiasis—A Diagnostic Pitfall on Imaging: Report of Two Cases and Brief Review of the Literature |
title_short | Calcification in Salivary Gland Cancer Mimicking Sialolithiasis—A Diagnostic Pitfall on Imaging: Report of Two Cases and Brief Review of the Literature |
title_sort | calcification in salivary gland cancer mimicking sialolithiasis—a diagnostic pitfall on imaging: report of two cases and brief review of the literature |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9224696/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35743400 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm11123329 |
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