Otorhinolaryngological symptoms of tumors of the pharyngeal process of the parotid saliva (clinical case with literature review)

Abstract

The parotid gland is the largest salivary gland. Tumors of the salivary gland account for 5% in the structure of oncological morbidity, and up to 80% of tumors affect the large salivary glands with tumor localization in 20% of cases in the pharyngeal process of the parotid salivary gland. The main clinical sign of a tumor of the parotid salivary gland is the presence of a slowly growing mass in the area of the gland. Often, underestimation of the clinical symptoms of salivary gland tumors is the reason for the late diagnosis of this disease and the initial manifestations of the process remain unnoticed for a long time. In order to increase the efficiency of clinical diagnostics of salivary gland tumors, the staff of the Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, Otorhinolaryngology and Topographic Anatomy with Operative Surgery of the Burdenko Voronezh State Medical University studied the clinical and anatomical parallels of changes in the ENT organs in lesions of the pharyngeal process of the parotid salivary gland. Using the previously obtained results of interdisciplinary interaction of otorhinolaryngologists and maxillofacial surgeons made it possible to increase the efficiency of diagnosis and treatment of patients with tumors of the pharyngeal process of the parotid salivary gland.