How do you approach a child with recurrent parotitis who has had negative serum testing for Sjogren's and IgG4 related disease?
Would a minor salivary gland biopsy be sufficient to rule out inflammatory diagnoses, would core parotid gland biopsy be more valuable?
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Rheumatology · University of Alabama Birmingham
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Minor salivary gland biopsy is pretty random and subjective; finding >50 lymphocytes per set field is not that specific/helpful. I would think a parotid gland biopsy and extensive work-up (TB, HIV, sarcoid, lymphoma, etc.) is in order.
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