Cheilitis Glandularis : Two Case Reports of Asian-Japanese Men and Literature Review of Japanese Cases

Abstract EN

Cheilitis glandularis (CG) is a rare disorder characterized by swelling of the lip with hyperplasia of the labial salivary glands.

CG is most frequently encountered in the lower lip, in middle-aged to older Caucasian men; however Asian cases were rarely reported.

In this paper we present two cases of CG in Asian-Japanese men.

One was a 23-year-old male with CG of the superficial suppurative type.

The other was a 54-year-old male with deep suppurative type.

We also reviewed the Japanese cases of CG in the literature and discussed about clinical feature of Japanese CG.