title: Submandibular salivary disease: a proposed allergic aetiology.
abstract: Two cases of submandibular gland swelling are documented. In one patient examination of the excised submandibular gland revealed a dense eosinophilia: the other patient had a peripheral blood eosinophilia. Both patients demonstrated a marked decrease in the swelling of the salivary glands after a course of oral antihistamine. Although allergy has been implicated as a cause of recurrent parotid gland swelling, there are no previous reports of such a phenomenon occurring in the submandibular gland.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Harkness
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004802:Eosinophilia / Q000276:immunology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012221:Rhinitis, Allergic, Perennial / Q000150:complications / Q000276:immunology; D012793:Sialadenitis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000276:immunology*; D013363:Submandibular Gland / Q000276:immunology*; D016593:Terfenadine / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D016593:Terfenadine