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Viruses and salivary gland disease: are there associations?
1University Department of Oral Medicine, Surgery, and Pathology, Bristol Dental Hospital and School, England.
Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, and Oral Pathology
|August 1, 1988
Abstract:
Viruses can cause sialadenitis and may be associated with other diseases of salivary glands, particularly immunologically mediated and neoplastic lesions. The evidence that such an association with Sjögren's syndrome is causal is reviewed here and shown to be fairly tenuous at present.