Case Report
Copyright ©The Author(s) 2019. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved.
World J Clin Cases. Jun 6, 2019; 7(11): 1351-1357
Published online Jun 6, 2019. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v7.i11.1351
A large basal cell adenoma extending to the ipsilateral skull base and mastoid in the right parotid gland: A case report
Lu-Yang Du, Xiu-Hong Weng, Zhen-Yu Shen, Bo Cheng
Lu-Yang Du, Zhen-Yu Shen, Department of Stomatology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, HuaZhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, Hubei Province, China
Xiu-Hong Weng, Bo Cheng, Department of Stomatology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, Hubei Province, China
Author contributions: Du LY analysed the data and wrote the paper; Weng XH collected the medical imaging materials and analysed the data; Shen ZY collected the medical imaging materials; Cheng B designed the report and performed the preliminary revision of the article. All authors contributed to this article.
Informed consent statement: Consent was obtained from the patient for publication of the report and accompanying images.
Conflict-of-interest statement: There are no conflicts of interest declared by the authors.
CARE Checklist (2016) statement: The authors have read the care checklist (2016), and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the CARE Checklist (2016).
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Bo Cheng, DDS, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Stomatology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, 169 Donghu Road, Wuhan 430071, Hubei Province, China. chengbo@znhospital.cn
Telephone: +86-135-07190986
Received: January 17, 2019
Peer-review started: January 17, 2019
First decision: March 10, 2019
Revised: April 2, 2019
Accepted: April 9, 2019
Article in press: April 10, 2019
Published online: June 6, 2019
Processing time: 141 Days and 11.9 Hours
Core Tip

Core tip: Basal cell adenoma (BCA) is a rare benign tumour that has unique histological characteristics and primarily arises in the parotid glands. Destruction of nearby tissue by BCA has not been reported. We presented a case of tubular BCA in the deep lobe of the parotid gland involving the ipsilateral skull base and mastoid. It suggests that a diagnosis of BCA can only be established after an excisional biopsy, and tubular BCA should carefully be considered as a destructive type.