Case Report: A Patient with Submandibular Swelling

Julia A. Ford, MD, is a recent graduate of the rheumatology fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, and is now a clinical assistant professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Robert Padera, MD, PhD, is an associate professor of pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Lindsey A. MacFarlane, MD, MPH, is an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and a member of the rheumatology faculty at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Acknowledgment

The authors thank William Docken, MD, and Magda Abdou, RVT, for their assistance in preparing this article.

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