Sandbox:DDx HEENT
- 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