ANAMNESIS
/ SYMPTOMS:
A
70 year old patient reports about a small swelling in the area of the left
parotid gland that occured some years ago. The swelling gets clearly bigger
under lateroversion of the head.
FINDINGS:
On
a transversal plane a well definable, honeycomb-like and inhomogenous echo-reflecting
structure is visualized. Hypo- and hyperechoic shares are recognizable. The tumour is
located in the parenchyma of the parotid
gland and
borders on the masseter
muscle and
the mandible.
On the colour encoded Dopplerīs sonogramm on a longitudinal plane the hypoechoic
shares are heaviliy circulated. The tumour is hardly compressible with the transducer.
DIAGNOSIS:
The patient
is suspected of having a haemangioma in
the area of the left parotid
gland.
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