Sarcoidosis presenting as a solitary parotid mass.

Ear Nose Throat J

Department of Surgery, Temple University School of Medicine, Clinical Campus, The Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Pittsburgh, USA.

Published: October 2006

We describe an unusual case of sarcoidosis in which the patient presented with a discrete solitary parotid mass and no other manifestation of the disease. The diagnosis was based on the unexpected pathologic findings during examination of a superficial parotidectomy specimen. To the best of our knowledge, no such presentation has been previously reported in the English-language literature.

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