Abstract
We herein report a case of tuberculosis of the parotid gland. The patient was a 63-year-old man who had an enlarged swelling of the parotid gland. A physical examination showed a mass in the parotid gland but no swelling of the neck lymph node or facial palsy. The cytological findings indicated a suspected Warthins tumor. We therefore performed an operation without performing a pathological examination during the operation under general anesthesia because of the diagnosis of a Warthins tumor. The postoperative pathological findings showed tuberculosis for all six tumors. Tuberculosis of the parotid gland is a variegated disease which only rarely shows facial palsy. Six tumors were found in the intraparotid gland in this case. In has been reported that tuberculosis of the parotid gland has recently increased, and we therefore recommend that a rapid pathological examination of such patients should thus be performed during the operation to make an accurate differential diagnosis.
