Journal of Clinical Case Reports

Chronic Swelling of the Submandibular Glands and Sicca Syndrome: An Unusual ENT Presentation of AL Amyloidosis

Abstract

Tropiano Paolo*, Agostini Giovanni, Di Maio Pasquale and Ricci Giampietro

Amyloidosis is a sistemic disease characterized by accumulation in the extracellular and perivascular spaces of insoluble fibrillar proteins (amyloid), which determines the impairment of the function of the affected tissues. Clinically it can mimic conditions. In the case report we reported the case of a clinical overlap with Sjögren's syndrome.