BACKGROUND Orbital metastases are an uncommon finding, being present in just 9% deceased patients with metastatic cancer. Only a quarter of patients with choroidal metastases have bilateral disease. Parotid cancer is not a common form of head and neck malignancy. Bilateral multifocal metastases from adenocarcinoma ex pleomorphic of parotid gland have been documented just once before in the lite...

Results 26 patients were included in the study: 20 girls (76%), 6 boys (24%), with mean age at diagnosis of 12.6 years (3-21 years). Patients were 16 years of age or younger at the onset of symptoms. Eight (30.7%) patients had parotid gland enlargement as the initial manifestation of the disease, with recurrent episodes in 2 (7.6%) patients. Ten (38%) had dry mouth complaint and 16 (62%) had oc...

Parotid gland tumours account for 80% of all salivary gland neoplasms, 20% of these are malignant, but in daily clinical practice most parotid masses are operated on before obtaining the final histological diagnosis. This clinical setting further complicates the critical point of parotid surgery, which is the management of the facial nerve. In the present study, data were evaluated referring to...

The aim of this prospective open-label study was to treat disabling drooling in children with cerebral palsy (CP) with onabotulinumtoxin A (A/Ona, Botox®) into submandibular and parotid glands and find the lowest effective dosage and least invasive method. A/Ona was injected in 14 children, Mean age 9 years, SD 3 years, under ultrasonic guidance in six successive Series, with at least six month...

BACKGROUND Evidence in imaging studies suggests that there may be differences in glandular involvement in Sjogren's syndrome (SS) depending on the stage of the disease. No detailed histological studies are available to show if there are any such difference in glandular involvement at various time periods and stages of SS. This cross sectional study examines the inflammatory changes in mouse mod...

OBJECTIVE To investigate and analyze the typical CT findings of salivary gland lymphoepithelial carcinoma. METHODS CT findings in 8 patients with lymphoepithelial carcinoma (LEC) in salivary gland were studied retrospectively. Surgical resection was performed in all cases. RESULTS 8 cases were subdivided to primary tumor and secondary tumor. In primary tumor group, 5 were localized in the p...

sialography is the retrograde injection of an iodinated contrast agent into the ductal system of salivary glands and this technique is the only method capable of adequately demonstrating the status of the ductal system. one of the indications of sialography is classification of the salivary ductal system fistulae. this classification has important prognostic and therapeutic values. in the prese...

abstract we report a 30 year old woman who presented with a painless preauricular mass of two months duration. superficial parotidectomy was performed for the patient. histological examination and immunohistochemical findings were in favor of mixed cellularity hodgkin’s lymphoma (mchd). according to this diagnosis the patient received local radiotherapy and during 4 months of follow-up no recur...

BACKGROUND Most patients with cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) of the head and neck (HN) are at low-risk (<5%) of developing metastatic SCC to regional lymph nodes. However, patients with unfavorable clinicopathologic factors often are under appreciated by clinicians but remain at higher risk for developing metastatic lymph node disease and dying. METHODS Patients were identified who ...