Xanthogranulomatous sialadenitis clinically mimicking a malignancy: case report and review of the literature

Abstract

Background Xanthogranulomatous tissue reaction is a welldocumented process that is most common in kidney. There are other uncommon sites being documented as case reports in the literature. We would like to describe the clinicopathologic findings in a case of xanthogranulomatous sialadenitis that involved the parotid gland, which was clinically thought to be a tumoral mass, and compare it with the 4 previously reported cases.