DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2020.v08i11.023

Pages: 2551-2552

Introduction: Warthin’s tumor, otherwise known as papillary cystadenolymphoma, is a benign epithelial tumor of the salivary glands. It has characteristic oncocytic glandular structures and lymphoid stroma. It is found almost exclusively in the parotid gland and periparotid lymph nodes. Observation: We report the case of a 50-year-old patient who consulted for a bilateral parotid cervical swelling that had been evolving for 6 years, painless, superficially mobile, without any notion of facial paralysis and without inflammatory signs. The patient received cervicofacial CT with a well-limited bilateral parotid mass with a separation border with parotid parenchyma. Treatment consisted of a cervical surgical removal of the 2 masses whose histological examination returned in favour of a lymph node localized whartin tumor. Discussion: The whartin tumor is a benign tumor with mainly parotid development, nevertheless periparotid ganglionic involvement is relatively rare but possible. The reference radiological exam is cervicoparotidian MRI and the treatment is surgical.