Pediatric Parotid Region Lesions: An Imaging Review
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.
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.
Keywords: ASL = arterial spin-labeling; AdCC = adenoid cystic carcinoma; BMT = benign mixed tumor; CRP = chronic recurrent parotitis; CSD = cat-scratch disease; IH = infantile hemangioma; LM = lymphatic malformation; MEC = mucoepidermoid carcinoma; NHL = non-Hodgkin lymphoma; NTM = nontuberculous mycobacteria; PN = plexiform neurofibroma; RMS = rhabdomyosarcoma; US = ultrasound; VM = venous malformation
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: December 1, 2018
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