Figure 10: a) Unclear findings on ultrasonography of the left parotid gland of a 12-year-old girl. MRI showed a space-occupying lesion with high signal intensity in the T2 weighted scan and (b) a hypointense, inhomogeneous structure taking up contrast medium in an enhanced T1 weighted scan (c). The diagnosis of an atypical pleomorphic adenoma seemed most likely. After extracapsular dissection of the tumour (d), histology showed a cavernous haemangioma with cystic, partially thrombosed vascular clefts with residual acini in between them (e: reproduced with the kind permission of Prof. Agaimy, Department of Pathology, Erlangen, Germany).