Diseases

Mikulicz' Disease

A chronic, benign, and usually painless inflammatory swelling of the lacrimal and salivary glands. It is considered by some to include the glandular enlargement associated with other diseases, such as Sjogren's syndrome, sarcoidosis, lupus erythematosus, etc.

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A chronic, benign, and usually painless inflammatory swelling of the lacrimal and salivary glands. It is considered by some to include the glandular enlargement associated with other diseases, such as Sjogren's syndrome, sarcoidosis, lupus erythematosus, etc.

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  • Mikulicz Disease
  • Mikulicz's Disease
  • Mikuliczs Disease

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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an inflamm dis of the lacrimal & salivary glands

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Mikulicz' Disease. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D008882. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D008882
  2. Mikulicz' Disease. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benign_lymphoepithelial_lesion
  3. Mikulicz' Disease. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q516562