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Expert Lectures

Head and Neck Surgery

A to Z of Parotid Cancers and Tumors: All Controversies Answered

Monday, October 13, 2025
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM EDT
Location: 126
CME/MOC Credit: 1
Disclosure(s):
Michael V. Medina, MD:

faculty for this accredited education activity has no relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: This is a one-hour comprehensive course on the management of Parotid tumors from initial presentation to treatment. This will be a step by step guide to the important steps in the management of parotid tumors including important aspects of history and physical examination to arrive at a diagnosis and treatment plan. It will answer lingering controversies on diagnostics, eg. the need for a fine needle aspiration
biopsy, tumor pathology, e.g. can you observe a tumor diagnosed as possible Warthin's tumor, and treatment: When to do a total parotidectomy rather than a superficial or lateral parotidectomy specifically in the setting of malignancy, the need for nerve monitoring, extra-capsular dissection,
should all parotid tumors including malignancies be reconstructed and parotidectomy as a same day ambulatory procedure.

Learning Objectives:

  1. To learn a comprehensive way of managing Pa rotid malignancies and tumors from presentation, diagnostics, and treatment.
  2. To understand how histopathology of Parotid tumors particularly malignancies impacts the extent of surgical management, including the need to perform a neck dissection and when to refer for radiation.
  3. To learn how primary soft tissue reconstruction can easily be implemented to minimize the parotiectomy defect and learn how parotidectomy even with reconstruction can be safely performed as a same day surgery procedure.

    Lead Presenter(s)

  • Michael V. Medina, MD

    Staff Physician
    Cleveland Clinic Florida
    Weston, FL, United States

    Disclosure(s):

    faculty for this accredited education activity has no relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

    • Co-Presenter(s)

  • Eric D. Lamarre, MD

    Associate Professor
    Cleveland Clinic
    Cleveland, Ohio, United States

    Disclosure information not submitted.