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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Ammu Susheela, M.D. [2]
Overview
Warthin's tumor was first discovered by Hildebrand, a German surgeon, in 1895.
Discovery
- Warthin's tumor was first discovered by Hildebrand, in 1895 who consider it as a variant of epithelial cyst of the neck.
- In 1910, Albrecht and Artz reported two cases of tumors of salivary gland.
- It is named for pathologist Aldred Scott Warthin, who described two cases in 1929 as papillary cystadenoma lymphomatosum.[1]
- The term Warthin's tumor was given to avoid confusion.[2]
References
- ↑ Witt, Robert L. (ed.) (2005). "Chapter 9 "Benign tumors, cysts, and tumor-like conditions of the salivary glands". Salivary Gland Diseases: Surgical and Medical Management. New York: Thieme Medical Publishers. p. 123. ISBN 1-58890-414-8.
- ↑ Head and Neck: Salivary gland tumors: Warthin's tumors. atlasgeneticsoncology (2015). http://atlasgeneticsoncology.org/Tumors/WarthinsTumID5424.html Accessed on Dece,ber 14, 2015