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Case Reports
. 2020 Mar;14(1):220-223.
doi: 10.1007/s12105-019-01023-3. Epub 2019 Mar 19.

Lipoma of the Parotid Gland

Kimberly N Tong  1 , Sharon Seltzer  2 , James T Castle  3
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Case Reports

Lipoma of the Parotid Gland

Kimberly N Tong et al. Head Neck Pathol. 2020 Mar.
No abstract available

Keywords: Lipoma; Magnetic resonance imaging; Neoplasms-adipose tissue; Otolaryngology; Parotid gland.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Figures

Fig. 1
Fig. 1
a PreGad Axial T1: bright lesion (T), hyperintense to parotid (P) tissue and muscle (M), deep and isointense to subcutaneous fat (F). A T1 intermediate to dark capsule (arrow), best seen posteriorly, may represent both the parotid and the lipoma capsules abutting each other. b PreGad Axial T1 FS highlighting the lesion (T) which is now isointense to parotid (P) and muscle (M) and isointense to subcutaneous fat (F). Capsule is denoted by arrow
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
a Axial STIR, essentially fat suppressed T2, where lesion (T) is T2 dark compared with cerebrospinal fluid CSF (arrow), isointense to subcutaneous fat (F) and hypointense to parotid (P) and to muscle (M). b Coronal T2 FS. The lesion (T) is T2 dark compared with intracranial CSF (arrow), isointense to subcutaneous fat (F) and hypointense to parotid (P) and to muscle (M)
Fig. 3
Fig. 3
A mass of mature, uniform adipocytes contained within parotid parenchyma is seen surrounded by a thin fibrous capsule
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