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Submandibular salivary disease: a proposed allergic aetiology
1Department of Otolaryngology, Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton.
The Journal of Laryngology and Otology
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
Two cases of submandibular gland swelling are documented. In one patient examination of the excised submandibular gland revealed a dense eosinophilia: the other patient had a peripheral blood eosinophilia. Both patients demonstrated a marked decrease in the swelling of the salivary glands after a course of oral antihistamine. Although allergy has been implicated as a cause of recurrent parotid gland swelling, there are no previous reports of such a phenomenon occurring in the submandibular gland.