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Chronic inflammatory disorders of the salivary glands
1Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90033, USA.
Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America
|September 9, 1999
Abstract:
When dealing with salivary gland disease, the otolaryngologist must be familiar with the various chronic inflammatory disorders that patients may be inflicted with. Physicians may have to treat such disorders as chronic sialadenitis, tuberculosis, sarcoidosis, animal scratch disease, actinomycosis, and Sjögren's syndrome. Symptoms, causes, and treatments of these chronic inflammatory disorders are discussed in this article.