A deep lobe parotid tumor tending the facial nerve and its branches

• Egile Nagusiak: Nisha Muruganidhi (Egilea), Mariappan Rajagopal (Egilea), Santhanakrishnan Kaliavaradan (Egilea), Poornima S Bhat (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Benign tumors of major salivary glands commonly affect the parotid gland and it is rare when the tumor exclusively involves the deep lobe of the gland. The mainstay of treatment is surgical excision. Parotid surgeries carry a formidable risk of injury to the facial nerve. Hence, identification of ex...