BACKGROUNDEpistaxis is one of the most common emergencies in any ENT Department, which needs utmost attention and early intervention. If proper assessment on arrival of the patient is not done, a significant morbidity and mortality can occur.

BACKGROUND The Parotid gland is the most common salivary gland to be affected by different pathological variants of swellings which present as a mass in the retromandibular area. The pathology of these lesions varies from inflammatory lesions, cysts, benign and malignant neoplasms. In our study we included only the cases which turned out to be Tuberculosis of the parotid gland. METHODS A small hospital based study of 100 cases of parotid swellings were carried out in the