Granulomatous sialadenitis.
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.
Batsakis
J G
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University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston 77030.
D006099:Granuloma / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D012793:Sialadenitis / Q000473:pathology*