Necrotizing sialometaplasia--diagnostic difficulties--literature review

Jamróz-Wilkońskaa, L.; Chomyszyn-Gajewska, M.; Wilkoński, W.

Przeglad Lekarski 71(5): 286-288

2014


ISSN/ISBN: 0033-2240
PMID: 25248245
Document Number: 672244
Necrotizing sialometaplasia is a benign, self-limiting inflammatory process, which concerns small salivary glands. This kind of lesion is very rare, with difficulties in clinical and histopathological diagnosis. Ulceration is the dominating symptom, which may suggest that it is a malignancy. Lesions usually heal spontaneously.

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