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Defining objective morphometric thresholds for the diagnosis of adenomatoid hyperplasia of minor salivary glands.

Oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology and oral radiology · Kalik R, Mamber L, Shuster A, Lusthaus M, Kaplan I · 2026-08-12

Researchers identified objective measurements to distinguish adenomatoid hyperplasia from normal minor salivary gland tissue, finding that enlarged acini diameter reliably differentiated the lesion from controls and establishing baseline reference values for normal glands.

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