Enfermedades sistémicas que afectan a las glándulas salivares
- Angel Nieto Sánchez
- Ruth García Martínez de Bartolomé
ISSN: 1577-3566
Year of publication: 2010
Volume: 11
Issue: 3
Pages: 94-99
Type: Article
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Abstract
Like any gland, the salivary glands have a stroma and parenchyma. Because of the vascularity in the stroma, these glands are sensitive to systemic processes, and are a good reflection of these diseases. Due to its size, the parotid glands are the most accessible. Systemic processes are primarily infectious, immune or neoplastic. Other clinical entities also alter the function and morphology of these glands. Systemic entities affecting the salivary glands can be divided into inflammatory (sialadenitis) and non-inflammatory (sialadenosis). Both manifest as glandular growth. Screening for systemic diseases, particularly infectious and/or immunologic processes, should always be performed in salivary gland hypertrophy, without forgetting the possibility that the process is neoplastic, either primary or, more rarely, metastatic.