[Morphology and problems of the morphogenesis of cytomegalic sialadenitis]

Two varieties of nodular sialadenitis, acute nodular (15%) and chronic with exacerbation of the nodular type (19%), were distinguished basing on analysis of the material from 880 children dead from cytomegaly. Parotid glands were examined electron-microscopically in 2 cass of generalized and 6 cases of localized cytomegaloviral infection. Basing on the histoenzymochemical data published earlier, the etiological role of cytomegalovirus in the development of nodular infiltrates was substantiated and the functional activity of cytomegalic cells in virus reproduction and isolation shown. Diagnostic importance of nodular infiltrates was stressed. Morphological manifestations of cytomegalovirus reproduction were described.