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Pleomorphic lipoma of the parotid gland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

C. T. Graham*
Affiliation:
Department of Cellular Pathology and Plastic Surgery, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury, UK.
A. H. N. Roberts
Affiliation:
Department of Plastic Surgery, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury, UK.
A. F. Padel
Affiliation:
Department of Cellular Pathology and Plastic Surgery, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury, UK.
*
Address for correspondence: Dr C. T. Graham, Department of Cellular Pathology, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DZ.

Abstract

Lipomata are rare tumours of the parotid gland. The plemorphic lipoma represents an unusual histological variant of the benign lipoma. We report a case of a pleomorphic lipoma arising in the parotid gland. Only one case of a similar nature has previously been recorded. This tumour is benign, was fully excised and recurrence is not expected.

Type
Pathology in Focus
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1998

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