@article {Guerin:2018:2637-8329:394,
title = "Pediatric Parotid Region Lesions: An Imaging Review",
journal = "Neurographics",
parent_itemid = "infobike://asnr/ng",
publishercode ="asnr",
year = "2018",
volume = "8",
number = "6",
publication date ="2018-12-01T00:00:00",
pages = "394-412",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "2637-8329",
eissn = "2637-8329",
url = "https://asnr.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/asnr/ng/2018/00000008/00000006/art00001",
doi = "doi:10.3174/ng.1800016",
keyword = "CSD = cat-scratch disease, BMT = benign mixed tumor, RMS = rhabdomyosarcoma, VM = venous malformation, NTM = nontuberculous mycobacteria, CRP = chronic recurrent parotitis, NHL = non-Hodgkin lymphoma, US = ultrasound, MEC = mucoepidermoid carcinoma, LM = lymphatic malformation, ASL = arterial spin-labeling, PN = plexiform neurofibroma, IH = infantile hemangioma, AdCC = adenoid cystic carcinoma",
author = "Guerin, J.B. and Johnson, D.R. and Koch, B.L. and Merrow, A.C. and O'Brien, W.T. and Kalina, P.",
abstract = "A wide spectrum of pathologies may affect the parotid gland and periparotid region in children. Inflammatory processes, congenital anomalies, and benign neoplasms are the more commonly encountered entities; primary and metastatic malignancies are relatively rare. Sonography and contrast-enhanced
CT and MR imaging are the primary imaging modalities for evaluating facial swelling in a child. We reviewed the clinical presentations and multimodality imaging features of processes that affect this region in children and emphasized more specific imaging characteristics that can help differentiate
similar-appearing lesions. Correlation of key clinical and imaging characteristics can allow radiologists to provide a succinct differential diagnosis and guide appropriate therapy.Learning Objective: Recognize and give a differential diagnosis for the more common inflammatory, congenital,
and neoplastic processes that affect the pediatric parotid gland and periparotid region.",
}