Warthin's tumor historical perspective

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Ammu Susheela, M.D. [2] Nazia Fuad M.D.

Warthin’s tumor was first discovered by Hildebrand, a German surgeon, in 1895. Warthin’s tumor is named after the pathologist Aldred Scott Warthin, who described two cases in 1929 and named them as papillary cystadenoma lymphomatosum.

• Warthin’s tumor was first discovered by Hildebrand, in 1895 who consider it as a variant of epithelial cyst of the neck.^[1]
• In 1910, Albrecht and Artz reported two cases of tumors of salivary gland,and reported this tumor as papillary cystadenoma.
• Warthin’s tumor is named after the pathologist Aldred Scott Warthin, who described two cases in 1929 and named them as papillary cystadenoma lymphomatosum.
• The term Warthin’s tumor was given to it by Martin and Ehrlich in 1944.

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