Symmetrical, Asymptomatic Submaxillary-Gland Enlargement in Older Age Groups
- 23 January 1958
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 258 (4) , 188-189
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195801232580408
Abstract
A PREVIOUS publication has described the phenomenon of a symmetrical enlargement of the submaxillary glands in the aged.1 In 22 out of 100 persons (50 men and 50 women) between the ages of seventy-one and ninety-one, a symmetrical, soft, smooth, painless, nontender and nonadherent enlargement of the submaxillary glands was found. Since no coexisting pathologic process of any kind was present, the term "sign," meaning characteristics of a disease, was avoided, and presence of the condition was not revealed to the carrier, to prevent cancerophobic apprehension.Although lately numerous essays have been published on diseases of the salivary glands on . . .Keywords
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