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Warthin's tumor differential diagnosis

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.

Overview

Overview

Warthin’s tumor must be differentiated from, salivary gland lymphoma, and salivary gland cancer.

Differentiating Warthin’s tumor from other Diseases

Differentiating Warthin’s tumor from other Diseases

Congenital
- 1st brancheal cleft cyst
- Infantile hemangioma
- lymphangioma
Inflammatory
- Reactive adenopathy
- Kimura disease
- Sarcoidosis
- BLL-HIV
- Sjogren syndrome
- Parotiditis
Benign tumor
- Benign mixed tumor
- Oncocytoma
- Lipoma
- Facial nerve schwannoma
Malignant tumor, primary
- Adenoid cystic carcinoma
- Actininic cell carcinoma
- squamous cell carcinoma
Metastatic tumor
- Systemic metastasis
- Non-hodgkin lymphoma

References

References

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