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Figure 1: a) Three-year-old boy with a painful red swelling of the right cheek since 3 days. b) No improvement on antibiotics. Axial ultrasound scan shows a hypoechoic, poorly demarcated, inhomogeneous lesion, measuring 21 mm x 16 mm (+…+), in the parotid gland, consistent with the diagnosis of an abscess. c) Treatment of choice was drainage of the abscess under general anaesthetic, with irrigation and insertion of a wick. Blue line: the mandible.