Abstract
A 17-year-old woman with the chief complaint of a swelling of the right side of the face and soft palate visited our clinic on May 18, 1999. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrated a large mass extending to the side of the right pharynx. Under general anesthesia the tumor was removed with a midline mandible split approach in July 22, 1999. The tumor was 80mm×60mm×50mm in size, and the histopathological diagnosis was pleomorphic adenoma. The patient remains well with no evidence of tumor recurrence for two years six months.
