Symptoms of parotid mixed tumor

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Now, people feel terrible when they hear about tumors. In fact, compared with malignant tumor disease, although benign tumor will also have a certain impact on patients, timely treatment will not endanger the life and health of patients. For example, parotid mixed tumor is a benign tumor. Now let's talk about the symptoms of parotid mixed tumor.

Symptoms of parotid mixed tumor

The parotid gland, commonly known as the infraauricular gland, is located in front of both ears on the face and under the earlobe. Its function is to secrete saliva and help digestion. In oral and maxillofacial tumors, the incidence of parotid gland tumors is higher, about 80%. This site is also prone to inflammation, such as: epidemic mumps, chronic suppurative mumps, pseudomumps, etc., the diagnosis is easy to be confused. When parotid gland tumor occurs, the tumor invades the facial nerve, and is prone to facial paralysis or facial sensory disturbance, such as facial pain, numbness, ant walking sensation, etc.

The clinical manifestation of parotid gland tumor is a mass around the earlobe of the face, which is round, oval or nodular. Tumors can be divided into benign and malignant. Benign tumors often appear in the parotid gland with a slow growing painless mass, which can move and has a clear boundary with the tissue around I. It is often misdiagnosed as powdery tumor, lymphadenitis, etc; However, malignant tumors in the parotid gland appear fast-growing mass, can appear maxillofacial numbness, mass activity is poor, and the boundary with the surrounding tissue is not clear, a small part of the tumor is very small, but early performance for nerve damage symptoms; Some benign tumors may become malignant after a certain period of growth or improper treatment. Therefore, if we encounter a painless tumor with slow growth and pain, we should think of the possibility of malignant transformation of benign tumor.

The benign tumors of parotid gland are mostly mixed tumors, which are prone to malignant transformation. Therefore, the surgical treatment is very critical. The parotid gland and tumor should be completely removed on the premise of preserving the anatomical facial nerve. Because of the close relationship between facial nerve and parotid gland tumor, if you are not familiar with the anatomical relationship of this part, you can damage the facial nerve and cause facial paralysis, resulting in postoperative mouth and eye deviation, bringing pain to patients. For malignant tumors, radical operation should be performed according to the invasion of surrounding tissues, followed by radiotherapy or chemotherapy. The key to treatment is to remove the tumor completely in normal tissue for the first time. We should take those effective means to detect parotid gland tumors early, so as to achieve the purpose of early diagnosis and obtain the best treatment effect.

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Although parotid mixed tumor is a kind of benign tumor, and growth is slow, but for patients, timely detection and treatment, will be of great help to their own body, not only that, active treatment at the same time to avoid the possibility of benign tumor deterioration, avoid endangering the lives of patients.