Treatment involves excision of the mucocele with associated minor salivary glands to decrease the chance for recurrence. Occasionally, mucoceles will rupture spontaneously and heal without surgical ...

Your salivary glands produce saliva and empty it into your mouth through slots called ducts. When these ducts become blocked, they can't produce enough saliva to moisten your food for proper eating.

Parotidectomy should no longer be regarded as a routine treatment for parotid duct stenosis and should be indicated only in individual cases, report researchers. Treatment of the condition can be ...

There are three bilaterally paired major salivary glands, the parotid, submandibular, and sublingual glands. In addition to these major glands, minor ones are located in the palate, lips, and buccal ...

Basaloid or ‘blue’ salivary gland tumors comprise a significant proportion of all tumors encountered in salivary gland, primary, metastatic as well as non-salivary-type lesions. Some tumors are fairly ...

The relative frequency of carcinoma and mixed tumors of the parotid and submaxillary salivary glands is unusually high in this series of cases as shown in Table 1. This is due to the fact that more ...

Malignant tumors of salivary glands are uncommon: the world annual incidence rates are between 4 and <0.05 per 100,000. 1 In Europe SGC has an incidence of 1.2 per 100,000, according to Surveillance ...

Salivary glands produce saliva and empty it into a person’s mouth. Saliva helps make food moist, making it easier for people to chew, swallow, and digest. Saliva also helps keep the mouth clean. A ...

In an interview with Medscape, Bhuvanesh Singh, MD, a surgical oncologist with the Head and Neck Service, Department of Surgery, and the director of the Laboratory of Epithelial Cancer Biology at ...

Monomorphic adenomas refer to a group of rare tumors of the salivary gland that include basal cell adenomas and canalicular adenomas. Basal cell adenomas are observed predominantly in the parotid ...