[Inflammatory pseudotumor of the parotid gland]

An inflammatory pseudotumor is a rare clinicopathologic condition of unknown etiology and benign course, mimicking sometimes other malignant entities under the clinic and pathologic viewpoint. Our case sitting inside the left parotid salivary gland in an 70-year-old male, was at first diagnosed as epidermoid carcinoma and consequently operated. The biopsy disclose in the mass removed a pseudotumor measuring 3 cm diameter not malignant, lodging inside a microscopic growth of Warthin type. Revue of the literature, of diagnostic findings and mode of management, suggering besides its possible etiopathogenic relation with the inflammatory pseudotumor.