title: Granulomatous sialadenitis.
abstract: Granulomatous inflammation in salivary tissues is most often a response to liberated ductal contents, particularly mucin, in various degrees of obstructive sialadenopathy. Far less often is a granulomatous sialadenitis the result of specific infective granulomas or systemic granuloma-forming diseases. In these instances, the salivary parenchymal involvement is usually secondary to disease localization in regional lymph nodes.
authors.affiliation: University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston 77030.
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Batsakis
mesh_terms: D006099:Granuloma / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D012793:Sialadenitis / Q000473:pathology*