WARTHIN’S TUMOUR

• Also called as Papillary cystadenoma lymphomatosum, Adenolymphoma.
• It is a benign parotid tumour.
• Presence of lymphatic tissue in the stroma, and lymph follicles are the characteristic feature of Warthin’s tumour.
• Narrow cystic or cleftlike spaces lined by a double layer of neoplastic epithelial cells resting on a dense lymphoid stroma.

Clinical features-

• Males are commonly affected.
• Usually affects smokers and are bilateral.
• Situated to the lower pole of the parotid gland.

Investigations-

• 99m Tc-pertechnate scan – hot spots

Treatment-

• Superficial parotidectomy is the treatment of choice.

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