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Short communication & case report| Volume 48, ISSUE 5, P447-450, November 1979

Prostatic carcinoma presenting as a primary parotid tumor

  • Virginia A. LiVolsi
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    Reprint requests to: Dr. V. A. LiVolsi Department of Pathology Yale University 310 Cedar St. New Haven, Conn. 06510
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    Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, Conn. USA
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      Abstract

      A patient who presented with a clinically solitary intraparotid metastasis from a prostatic carcinoma is reported. The entity of metastatic disease in the parotid is reviewed. The importance of clinical and histologic distinction between primary and metastatic neoplasms of the parotid is stressed.
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