About 19% of salivary stones form in the parotid glands. Submandibular glands are located just under both sides of your jaw.

Your surgeon usually removes some surrounding tissue along with the cancer. The exact details of surgery depend on the size and location of the cancer. Salivary gland cancers often spread to the lymph ...

The major salivary glands produce approximately one quart of saliva each day, which in turn plays a crucial role in food digestion, swallowing, speech, and protection of teeth against bacteria and ...

Dr Wouter Vogel, radiation oncologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, explained that the reason the glands have gone unnoticed for so long probably because it takes 'very sensitive imaging' to ...

The findings may have implications for radiotherapy, a cancer treatment that can cause damage to salivary glands and leave lasting complications. Doctors don’t regularly come across undiscovered bits ...

Initially, not all salivary glands were thought to be impaired while those glands that demonstrated damage seemed to heal spontaneously without further subjective and objective symptomatology.

During a salivary gland biopsy, your surgeon removes a small amount of abnormal tissue from the gland where cancer is suspected. The tissue sample is then sent to a pathologist who examines it under a ...

leading to the discovery of what they have named the "tubarial salivary gland." Also read New Deep-Sea Ghost Shark Species Discovered Off New Zealand Coast Located behind the nose where the nasal ...

It is possible that the patient had a mucosal radiation reaction to the 131 I, which was concentrated in the oral cavity by secretions from all the major and minor salivary glands. An ...