Abstract
Primary squamous cell carcinoma in the parotid gland is quite rare, particularly in young woman.
This paper reports a case of primary squamous cell carcinoma in the parotid gland of a 21-year-old woman. The patient's chief complaint was a mass in the left parotid region and paralysis of the left part of the lower lip.
Our clinical diagnosis was a malignant tumor of the parotid gland (T 2 bN 1 MO). Just before operation, a pathological investigation of a biopsy specimen showed that the lesion was squamous cell carcinoma. We performed total neck dissection with total parotidectomy. After the operation, the patient was given adjuvant chemotherapy (cisplatin+5-FU+leucovorin).
There has been no local recurrence or cervical lymph node, metastasis as of 5 years 2 months after the operation.
