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Acute facial-nerve paralysis with parotid adenolymphoma
M G Berry1, A A Brown, P H Lee
1St Andrews Centre for Plastic and Burn Surgery, Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, Essex, UK.
British Journal of Plastic Surgery
|June 29, 2001
Abstract:
An 82-year-old woman presented with acute facial paralysis in association with parotid swelling following fine-needle aspiration cytology of a parotid adenolymphoma. Evacuation of a tense haematoma decompressed the nerve and led to complete recovery within 6 months. Additionally, the tumour is no longer evident, either clinically or radiologically, and fine-needle aspiration cytology appears to have been both diagnostic and, inadvertently, therapeutic in this case.