Cheilitis glandularis: two case reports of asian-Japanese men and literature review of Japanese cases.

Abstract

Cheilitis glandularis (CG) is a rare disorder characterized by swelling of the lip with hyperplasia of the labial salivary glands. CG is most frequently encountered in the lower lip, in middle-aged to older Caucasian men; however Asian cases were rarely reported. In this paper we present two cases of CG in Asian-Japanese men. One was a 23-year-old male with CG of the superficial suppurative type. The other was a 54-year-old male with deep suppurative type. We also reviewed the Japanese cases of CG in the literature and discussed about clinical feature of Japanese CG.

• Authors: Toru Yanagawa, Akira Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki Harada, Kenji Yamagata, Naomi Ishibashi, Masayuki Noguchi, Kojiro Onizawa, Hiroki Bukawa
• Journal: ISRN dentistry (ISRN Dent) Vol. 2011 Pg. 457567 ( 2011) ISSN: 2090-438X [Electronic] Egypt
• PMID: 21991474 (Publication Type: Case Reports)