Necrotizing sialometaplasia.
Necrotizing sialometaplasia of salivary tissues is a vascular-based (lobular infarct), benign, and often self-limited disorder. Preponderantly a lesion of palatal salivary glands, it can involve any salivary gland, and it may be mistaken for carcinoma. Adherence to histopathologic criteria should obviate this mistake.
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University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston 77030.
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D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012797:Sialometaplasia, Necrotizing / Q000473:pathology*