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Chronic parotitis

Case contributed by Fakhry Mahmoud Ebouda
Diagnosis probable

Presentation

Bilateral parotid swelling since long time.

Patient Data

Age: 23 years.
mri

The superficial and deep lobes of both parotid glands appear enlarged with heterogeneous MRI signal intensity. They have small variable sized small cystic like appearing changes being low on T1 and high on T2 WIs. The glands show rather fair enhancement with intervening non enhancing cystic changes.

Case Discussion

Sequel of chronic parotitis.

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