Sandbox:DDx HEENT

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  • 20–40 yo patients
  • Facial palsy
  • May have nasal congestion, obstruction, visual changes, or trismus
  • Painless, slow-growing, hard, firm mass
  • Located at the parotid gland area
  • Cervical lymphadenopathy
  • Ulceration of buccal mucosa


  • Low-grade: well-circumscribed cystic masses
  • High-grade: poorly defined margins, infiltrate locally and appear solid
  • Calcification may be present
  • Solid or cystic architecture
  • A mixture of epidermoid squamous, intermediate, mucous, and clear cells
  • Mucin vacuoles
  • Nuclear distortion and cytoplasmic clearing
  • t(11;19)(q21;p13)
  • MECT1-MAML2 fusion gene