Rare Location of a Dermoid Cyst in the Parotid Gland: A Case Report

Vavro, Michal; Horák, Samuel; Dvoranová, Bronislava; Čierna, Zuzana; Babál, Pavel; Kobzová, Daniela; Hirjak, Dušan; Czakó, Ladislav

doi:10.14712/23362936.2022.18

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Prague Med. Rep. 2022, 123, 193-198

https://doi.org/10.14712/23362936.2022.18

Rare Location of a Dermoid Cyst in the Parotid Gland: A Case Report

Michal Vavro¹, Samuel Horák², Bronislava Dvoranová¹, Zuzana Čierna^2,3, Pavel Babál², Daniela Kobzová², Dušan Hirjak¹, Ladislav Czakó¹

¹Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Comenius University in Bratislava and University Hospital Ružinov, Bratislava, Slovakia
²Institute of Pathological Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University in Bratislava and University Hospital Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
³Department of Pathology, University Hospital, Trnava, Slovakia

Received April 16, 2022
Accepted August 2, 2022

Dermoid cyst of the parotid gland is a lesion composed of benign tissues of ectodermal and mesodermal origin. Although a dermoid cyst can be encountered across nearly all sites of the body, its location in the head and neck area is quite uncommon and even more unusual inside the parotid gland. We present a case of a patient with gradually enlarging tumour in her right parotid gland who underwent surgical removal of the tumour histologically corresponding to a dermoid cyst.