Nuclear Medicine & Radiation Therapy

Department of Nuclear Medicine, State Cancer Institute, IGIMS, Patna, India

Publications

• Case Report   
  Acinic Cell Carcinoma of the Parotid Gland: A Rare Case
  Author(s): Rajeev Kumar*, Yasmin Nasir, Arunav Kumar and Rajesh Kumar Singh
  
  Acinic cell carcinoma of parotid gland is defined by parotid neoplasm with at least some serous acinous differentiation. It is one of the rare malignancies of parotid (3–11% of adult parotid neoplasm) with very unpredictable clinical behavior in nature. Close differentials are warthins tumor, oncocytoma, clear cell and mucoepidermoid carcinomas. Surgery is the standard of care in this case. A 22-year-old male patient developed a swelling over the left parotid region in 2018, which gradually increased in size without any difficulty faced to the patient. Fine needle aspiration cytology of the swelling revealed pleomorphic adenoma. The patient underwent surgery in 2018 under general anesthesia at another facility, and no post-operative documents were available with the patient. Over time, the swelling recurred in the same region. The patient sought medical attention at IGIMS, ENT d.. Read More»
  

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