Salivary glands and lymph nodes

Salivary glands and lymph nodes

Involvement of lymph nodes in various pathologies of the head and neck is frequent not only in malignant diseases but also in inflammatory conditions. As size criteria are not sufficient to define a lymph node as malignant, other criteria such as shape, central necrosis and extracapsular spread are other helpful signs. However, micrometastases are still an unresolved problem although new imagin...

Salivary Glands

Mod&r, Lavstedt, and Ahlund studied the oral health effects of smoking and snuff use in 232 Swedish school children ages 13 to 14 years (119 boys and 113 girls) (36). Thirteen (11 percent) of the boys used snuff. The children were interviewed regarding their tobacco and toothbrushing habits, and examin ers (blind to the interview results) clinically assessed the degree of gingival mflammation, ...

Salivary Glands

Saliva plays an essential role in maintaining oral health. Alterations in salivary function lead to compromise of oral tissues and functions and have a large impact on a patient’s quality of life. Reductions in salivary flow most commonly manifest as symptoms of oral dryness. This subjective complaint of dry mouth is termed xerostomia, whereas objective alterations in salivary performance, quan...

Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis, immunological findings in saliva and salivary glands

biotin in salivary glands

Aims: To detect the presence of human herpes virus 6 (HHV6) and endogenous biotin in paraffin wax embedded and frozen salivary glands. Methods: Two stage indirect and streptavidin-biotin immunoperoxidase techniques were used to visualise the antigens. Results: HHV6 could not be shown in any of the tissues. However, considerable endogenous biotin antigenicity was detected in the glandular elemen...