Pathology consultation. Sialadenosis.
Sialadenosis, characterized by a uniform hypertrophy and hyperplasia of the acinar parenchyma of salivary glands, is associated with a variety of systemic diseases or functional disorders. Present evidence relates the clinical and morphologic changes in the salivary tissues to a neuropathic alteration of the autonomic innervation of the salivary acini.
Batsakis
J G
JG
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute at Houston 77030.
D006801:Humans; D006965:Hyperplasia; D006984:Hypertrophy; D012466:Salivary Gland Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D012469:Salivary Glands / Q000294:innervation