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Srinivas Kandula1, Bhari Sharanesha Manjunatha2, Priyanka Tayee3, Madhusudan Astekar4.
Abstract
Necrotising sialometaplasia is a benign, necrotising, self-healing inflammatory condition categorised as idiopathic disease of salivary glands. This condition holds diagnostic importance because of its clinical and histopathological presentation, which is ambiguous, and can be misdiagnosed as carcinoma particularly squamous cell carcinoma or mucoepidermoid carcinoma. This report describes a case of bilateral necrotising sialometaplasia occurring in a 38-year-old male patient. 2016 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.Entities:
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27789544 PMCID: PMC5093350 DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2015-211348
Source DB: PubMed Journal: BMJ Case Rep ISSN: 1757-790X