A case of coexisting Warthin tumor and langerhans cell histiocytosis associated with necrosis, eosinophilic abscesses and a granulomatous reaction in intraparotid lymph nodes

• Main Authors: Char Loo Tan, Gangaraju Changal Raju, Fredrik Petersson
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publishing 2011-06-01
• Series: Rare Tumors
• Subjects: Langerhans cell histiocytosis; granulomatous lymphadenitis; Warthin tumor; salivary gland; necrosis; eosinophilia
• Online Access: http://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/rt/article/view/2395
• ISSN: 2036-3605; 2036-3613

We present a patient (50-year-old male) with coexisting Warthin tumor and involvement of two intraparotid lymph nodes by Langerhans cell histiocytosis associated with necrosis, eosinophilic abscesses and a granulomatous reaction. This is the second documented case of this unusual combination of histological changes in nodal Langerhans cell histiocytosis and the first case involving intraparotid lymph nodes occurring together with an ipsilateral Warthin tumor.