[Malignant lymphoma of parotid origin mimicking Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome]

The Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome is classically described as the association of a unilateral tumefaction, a facial hemiparesia and of a furrowing of the tongue. Granulomatous blepharitis is an unusual localisation of the facial tumefaction, and chronic periocular oedema may represent a difficult differential diagnosis. The reported case has erroneously been diagnosed as a Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome and further showed to be a parotid gland involvement of a systemic malignant lymphoma.