Incidence of neoplastic versus non-neoplastic diseases of salivary glands in western Libya

Non - neoplastic salivary gland disease

This is a condition which occurs almost exclusively in females. It is very distressing because it lends a square shape to what should otherwise be an oval-shaped face. It usually affects younger females and so they are more sensitive about their facial appearance. It looks like bilateral parotid enlargement, but the diagnosis becomes obvious when the patient is asked to clench the teeth and a b...

Rare thyroid non-neoplastic diseases

Rare diseases are usually defined as entities affecting less than 1 person per 2,000. About 7,000 different rare entities are distinguished and, among them, rare diseases of the thyroid gland. Although not frequent, they can be found in the everyday practice of endocrinologists and should be considered in differential diagnosis. Rare non-neoplastic thyroid diseases will be discussed. Congenital...

Prenatal development of human major salivary glands. Histological and immunohistochemical characteristics with reference to adult and neoplastic salivary glands.

Regional chemotherapy of neoplastic diseases.

Recent developments have made regional chemotherapy a more rational endeavour. The important pharmacokinetic principles have been defined. The increase in regional exposure achieved is a direct function of a drug's total body clearance and is an inverse function of the permeability-area product (defining ease of egress) for third spaces or of the regional arterial blood flow for intraarterial i...

Susceptibility to neoplastic and non-neoplastic pulmonary diseases in mice: genetic similarities.

Chronic inflammation predisposes toward many types of cancer. Chronic bronchitis and asthma, for example, heighten the risk of lung cancer. Exactly which inflammatory mediators (e.g., oxidant species and growth factors) and lung wound repair processes (e.g., proangiogenic factors) enhance pulmonary neoplastic development is not clear. One approach to uncover the most relevant biochemical and ph...