Tuberculosis of parotid adenolymphoma and of lymph glands incorporating salivary ducts

Non‐Hodgkin's lymphoma arising in adenolymphoma—a report of two cases

“…The finding of tuberculosis in an adeno lymphoma supports this concept. 42 Colby and Dorfmanls state that regardless of whether one considers adenolymphomas as primarily a lesion of lymph node or of salivary gland the observation of adenolymphoma associated with a lymphomatous stroma is not unexpected. They record 2 such cases.…”

The genesis of adenolymphoma

“…Indeed, Dedola and Someda de Marco (1960-61) have denied the existence of such signs. A valuable contribution to the pathogenesis of this lesion was furnished by Collins and Shucksmith (1953), who noted salivary inclusions in tuberculous lymph-nodes and reported the third case of tuberculosis in an adenolymphoma. Their findings supported on a statistical basis the view that this tumour arises in lymph-nodes rather than from the salivary gland itself.…”

Adenolymphoma of the tonsillar fossa

“…However, it is now generally accepted that the adenolymphoma arises from salivary tissue within lymph nodes (Evans and Cruickshank, 1970;Lucas, 1972), and there has been much circumstantial evidence to support this thesis. Such evidence includes: the finding of atrophic salivary gland tissue in lymph nodes near adenolymphomas; the presence of adenolymphoma associated with tuberculous lymphadenitis (Collins and Shucksmith, 1953); and the existence of bilateral and multiple adenolymphomas in several lymph nodes with relatively undisturbed nodal architecture around small tumours (Bernier and Bhaskar, 1958). The elegant study of Azzopardi and Hou (1964) provided conclusive evidence that such tumours arise from residues of salivary duct epithelium included within lymph nodes.…”