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Four children are reported with a chronic caseating granulomatous infection of the intraparotid lymph nodes most likely due to atypical mycobacteria. The sialogram showed one or more masses within the parotid gland.
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Currarino, G., Votteler, T. & Weinberg, A. Atypical mycobacterial infection of intraparotid lymph nodes Clinical and sialographic observations. Pediatr Radiol 6, 10–12 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00973808
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