Berry MG, Brown AA, Lee PH, Kangesu L. Acute facial-nerve paralysis with parotid adenolymphoma.
BRITISH JOURNAL OF PLASTIC SURGERY 2001;
54:454-6. [PMID:
11428782 DOI:
10.1054/bjps.2001.3604]
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Abstract
An 82-year-old woman presented with acute facial paralysis in association with parotid swelling following fine-needle aspiration cytology of a parotid adenolymphoma. Evacuation of a tense haematoma decompressed the nerve and led to complete recovery within 6 months. Additionally, the tumour is no longer evident, either clinically or radiologically, and fine-needle aspiration cytology appears to have been both diagnostic and, inadvertently, therapeutic in this case.
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