Parotid tumors: a report of 120 cases
Essaadi, M.; Raji, A.; Janah, A.; Detsouli, M.; Kadiri, F.; Laraqui, N.Z.; Touhami, M.; Moukrim, B.; Benghalem, H.; Chekkoury, I.A.; Benchekroun, Y.
Revue de Laryngologie - Otologie - Rhinologie 119(3): 177-182
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 0035-1334 PMID: 9770064 Document Number: 487604
The treatment of the parotid tumors was clarified for a majority of the tumors, in spite of her histology diversity. The authors report in a retrospective study 120 cases of a parotid gland tumors during ten years over. They insist on the difficult of therapeutics, the histological diversity and the complications and sequelles of the surgery. The diagnosis was especially clinical and completed by scan and or a sialography. The superficial or total parotidectomy with preservation of facial nerve was realized in eighty-nine percent. The functional courage and the radiotherapy were associated respectively in eleven and seventeen patients. The histology was dominated by the benign tumors. The complications and sequelles were a facial paralysis definitive and a Frey's syndrome respectively in three percent cases. The ninety-seven percent patients were controlled with a mean follow up of three years. After results we must know every histologic type for to adapt his treatment. And the same complications and the sequelles were noted in all surgery type.