Subacute necrotizing sialadenitis.
Twelve cases of a heretofore unreported minor salivary gland disease have been reported. Although an infectious cause is suspected for this self-limiting inflammatory process, the actual cause remains unknown. It typically presents as a unilateral, erythematous, nonuclerated but painful, solitary firm swelling of the posterior hard palate. Patients are most often young white men who have spent several weeks in a new environment with a group of people living in close quarters such as military barracks.
Werning
J T
JT
Department of Oral Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D.C.
Waterhouse
J P
JP
Mooney
J W
JW
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009336:Necrosis; D010159:Palate; D012470:Salivary Glands, Minor / Q000473:pathology / Q000648:ultrastructure; D012793:Sialadenitis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*