This tumor usually present in the fourth or fifth decades. It was painless, slow growint, and usually found as an incidental mass in the cheek or near the angle of the mandibule, About 90% of this tumors arise superficially tot he plane of the
facial
nerve. On gross pathologic examination, this tumor is a solitary, firm, round tumor with a thin delicate. Incomplete capsule. The treatment choice is excision of the tumor with a surrounding cuff of normal tissue with facial nerve preservation.
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