[Physician errors in the diagnosis of so-called Küttner's "tumor"]

A diagnostic error occurred in a case with one of the forms of chronic sialadenitis, the so-called Küttner's [correction of Kuttmer's] "tumor". This disease resembles a tumor by its clinical course, and this may become the cause of an unjustified surgical intervention. The etiology of the disease is unknown; possible enlargement of the submandibular salivary glands as their substitute hypertrophy in diabetes mellitus is discussed.