Warthin's tumor differential diagnosis

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Ammu Susheela, M.D. [2] Nazia Fuad M.D.

Overview

Warthin's tumor must be differentiated from, salivary gland lymphoma, and salivary gland cancer.

Differentiating Warthin's tumor from other Diseases

• Congenital
  • 1st brancheal cleft cyst
  • Infantile hemangioma
  • lymphangioma
• Inflammatory
  • Reactive adenopathy
  • Kimura disease
  • Sarcoidosis
  • BLL-HIV
  • Sjogren syndrome
  • Parotiditis
• Benign tumor
  • Benign mixed tumor
  • Oncocytoma
  • Lipoma
  • Facial nerve schwannoma
• Malignant tumor, primary
  • Adenoid cystic carcinoma
  • Actininic cell carcinoma
  • squamous cell carcinoma
• Metastatic tumor
  • Systemic metastasis
  • Non-hodgkin lymphoma