Clonal Salivary Gland Infiltrates Associated With Myoepithelial Sialadenitis (Sjogren's Syndrome) Begin as Nonmalignant Antigen-Selected Expansions

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Myoepithelial sialadenitis (MESA) is the reactive salivary gland lymphoid infiltrate that occurs in patients with Sjogren's syndrome. Although it is well established that mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT)-type lymphomas may develop from MESA, the issue of whether monoclonal B-cell populations in early MESA-associated lesions represent MALT lymphomas or more benign types of expansions has been very...

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