Rapidly growing parotid gland mass, posing a diagnostic dilemma
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Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic infection with worldwide distribution, whose definitive host is felines. It is only symptomatic in less than 20% of immunocompetent patients. Symptoms may vary from general malaise, fever, weakness and the presence of cervical lymphadenopathy. A description of an uncommon presentation of this disease in a male patient with progressively growing left-sided parotid mass, in whom a parotidectomy was performed to rule out lymphoproliferative disease. Infection by Toxoplasma gondii was diagnosed after a series of exams.
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