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PAUL J. DONALD, MD, FRCS(C)
Sacramento, Calif

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1988;114(5):487-489.

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At the Western Section Triological Society meeting in Coronado, Calif, Drs Rabinda Branganza and James P. Dudley, Los Angeles, presented a retrospective review of 64 cases of chronic submaxillary gland infection excised during a ten-year period from 1975 to 1985. There were 39 women and 25 men in the study group, whose ages ranged from 15 to 85 years, with an average age of 50 years. Pain and swelling were the presenting symptoms common to all patients, with 50% of patients having both. The symptoms were present for two weeks to 15 years and occurred with meals in a third of the patients.

Sialography was performed in 35 patients and 87% showed dilated salivary ducts, 66% with stones and 21% without. The histologic appearance of 50 lymphocytes or plasma cells per high-power field surrounding a glandular acinus was defined as chronic sialadenitis. Periglandular

and periductal inflammation, as well as fibrosis, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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