[The dysorexia-sialomegaly-amenorrhea syndrome (author's transl)]

Rev Stomatol Chir Maxillofac. 1978;79(6):451-65.
[Article in French]

Abstract

The enlarged parotid glands seen in both poor nutritional states and in women with amenorrhea have always been considered to be separate entities. Thirteen observations are reported of a syndrome consisting of dysorexia (or anorexia), swelling of the salivary glands (sialomegaly), and menstrual disturbances (hypomenorrhea or amenorrhea). This syndrome can be defined as a clinical entity combining the symptomatology of parotid enlargements due to poor nutrition and those caused by sex-hormone disorders. In the Dysorexia-Sialomegaly-Amenorrhea syndrome, the salivary gland swellings are due to poor nutrition and the amenorrhea, which is of the hypothalamic type, is also secondary to poor nutrition.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Amenorrhea / etiology*
  • Amenorrhea / psychology
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Feeding and Eating Disorders / etiology*
  • Feeding and Eating Disorders / psychology
  • Female
  • Histrionic Personality Disorder
  • Humans
  • Hypertrophy
  • Nutrition Disorders / complications
  • Parotid Gland*
  • Parotid Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Salivary Gland Diseases / diagnosis
  • Salivary Gland Diseases / etiology
  • Salivary Gland Diseases / psychology
  • Syndrome