Definition: A benign, inflammatory, variably ulcerated, occasionally bilateral, self-healing lesion of the minor salivary glands that is often confused clinically and histologically with carcinoma.
benign inflamm self-healing lesions of minor salivary glands
Other names Necrotizing Sialometaplasia; Sialometaplasias, Necrotizing; Necrotizing Sialometaplasias