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The clinical manifestations, diagnostic histopathology, and clinical course of mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the parotid gland presenting as a clinically benign periauricular cystic nodule in four patients ranging in age from 11 to 63 years, are analyzed in the present report. Illustrating the challenge of accurate diagnosis, three of the four cases were initially misinterpreted on biopsy as benign cystic lesions. Multiple biopsies displayed foamy histiocytes around mucinous extravasations into dermis that mimicked ruptured epithelial cysts in two cases before malignancy was ascertained. This series demonstrates the need to include parotid tumor in the differential diagnosis of odd periauricular cyst\u2010like expansions and adenosquamous proliferations. Mucoepidermoid carcinoma in particular can explain indolent, infra\u2010auricular \u2018mucinous cysts'. Familiarity with this syndrome should arouse suspicion of parotid carcinoma when a \u2018cyst\u2019 or nodule is located near the earlobe. 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