title: [Physician errors in the diagnosis of so-called Küttner's "tumor"].
abstract: A diagnostic error occurred in a case with one of the forms of chronic sialadenitis, the so-called Küttner's [correction of Kuttmer's] "tumor". This disease resembles a tumor by its clinical course, and this may become the cause of an unjustified surgical intervention. The etiology of the disease is unknown; possible enlargement of the submandibular salivary glands as their substitute hypertrophy in diabetes mellitus is discussed.
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Afanas'ev
authors.forename: V S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Starodubtsev
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012598:Sclerosis; D012793:Sialadenitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D013363:Submandibular Gland / Q000473:pathology; D013365:Submandibular Gland Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013577:Syndrome