OBJECTIVE The study aims to analyze the demographic data of a large case series operated on because of submandibular triangle mass for more than 10 years and presents a review of the literature. MATERIALS AND METHODS The charts of patients who underwent surgical intervention for submandibular triangle mass between January 2000 and November 2010 were reviewed. The medical history, age, sex, du...

Sialoliths are common in submandibular salivary gland duct and rarely do they occur in the submandibular gland proper. Very rarely the stones within the gland achieve a gigantiform size, imposing difficulty for the oral physician to differentiate it from a calcified submandibular lymphnode. Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology, computed tomography and ultrasonography provides additional information ...

Objective. Reporting of a rare case of postoperative submandibular gland swelling following craniotomy. Case Report. A 33-year-old male underwent resection for a brain tumor under general anesthesia. The tumor was resected via a retrosigmoid suboccipital approach and the patient was placed in a lateral position with his face down and turned to the right. Slight swelling of the right submandibul...

Bilateral duplication of submandibular ducts ending in a ranula was revealed by sialography and confirmed by T2weighted SSh sequence using magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) parameters. A literature search revealed 2 previous reports of submandibular duct duplication, but a ranula associated with submandibular duct duplication has not been previously reported. A review of congen...

pure submandibular saliva was collected from anaesthetized vitamin - a - treated and control rats with using of pilocarpine as secretogogue, and then the serum was collected by cardiac puncutre. intraperitoneal injection of a large single dose (100,000 iu/kg) of vitamin a changed total protein, calcium and sodium concentrations of saliva so that sodium level of submandibular saliva was reduced ...

Introduction: Submandibular gland excision is the gold standard treatment for submandibular gland disease. Although submandibulectomy is a relatively standardized surgical procedure, complications are frequently reported. These complications include nerve paralysis or paresis, aesthetic sequelae, hematoma, salivary fistulas or sialoceles, wound infections, hypertrophic scars and inflammations c...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were to compare the prevalence of submandibular gland neoplasia in an Asian population with a Western population and to evaluate the accuracy of fi ne needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) and computed tomography (CT) scan in the study of submandibular gland pathologies. MATERIALS AND METHODS We conducted a 10-year retrospective review of 101 submandibular ...

Sialolithiasis is a condition characterized by the obstruction of a salivary gland or its excretory duct by calcareous concretions. It is a common disease of major salivary glands and mainly affects the submandibular gland. Bilateral submandibular sialolithiasis, however, is a rare condition. No systemic disorders, with the exception of gout, were found to be related to salivary stone formation...

Introduction: Pathologically sialolithiasis is a disease which results in the obstruction of a salivary gland by a sialolith. Sialolith is generally seen in small size and their sizes range from 1 mm to 1 cm. Large salivary gland calculi are infrequent and defined as the size of 1.5 cm or larger. Only a few cases of large sialolith of the submandibular glands have been reported in literature. I...

Lung mesenchyme is able to support budding and cytodifferentiation of salivary epithelial rudiments in vitro. No difference in response was found between submandibular and parotid epithelium from mouse or rat. There are several further features of this result, which is contradictory to previous findings. (.1) Lung mesenchyme is quantitatively less effective than submandibular mesenchyme for sup...