“…In 1971, Hemanway (17) proposed the term ‘chronic punctuate parotitis’ based on sialographic features and classified it as Mikulicz’s disease and SS. Yoel in 1975 (18), as well as Finochietto and Yoel in 1952 (19), classified parotitis as inflammation of ducts, including acute primary inflammation of the ducts, acute secondary inflammation of the ducts, or chronic inflammation of the ducts; and as inflammation of the glands, including acute parotitis, chronic parotitis, and chronic recurrent parotitis. In 1976, Mandel classified parotitis into acute suppurative parotitis, sialolithiasis, autoimmune disease including RPC, recurrent parotitis in adulthood (RPA) or SS (20, 21).…”