Although in most of the rural development plans, relocation of informal settlements is oftenconsidered as an efficient solution to increase safety of rural communities against natural and man-made disasters,such as, earthquakes, fire hazards, floods, etc. an evaluation of recent experiences in the relocation projects show thatthe relocated community is often unsatisfied with the new residential...

Background: Salivary glands (SGs) are usually irradiated during radiotherapy for head and neck cancers, which may lead to radiation-induced changes. These changes could be evaluated safely by ultrasonography; however, there have been few studies in this regard. Thus, we aimed to investigate the changes in post-radiotherapy submandibular glands using ultrasonography in patients undergoing head-n...

A 46 yr old female came to the ENT department of Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, Chennai, India, with minimal painless swelling in the bilateral cheek and left submandibular region for two months, in September 2014. The patient had no significant medical history other than multiple carious tooth extractions. Bimanual palpation could not locate the submandibular gland on the right side...

Echinococcosis is a tissue infection of the human caused by the larval stage of Echinococcus granulosus or E. multilocularis. Hydatid cyst of the head and neck region is uncommon and involvement of the salivary glands, especially the submandibular gland, is very rare. In this article, a case of submandibular gland hydatid cyst is reported in a patient who presented with swelling of this are...

Primary submandibular gland oncocytic carcinoma is a rare pathology, with only 10 cases being reported to date. We encountered a case of primary submandibular gland oncocytic carcinoma and report it herein. The patient was a 69-year-old man who came to our hospital with right submandibular cancer as the main complaint. Based on the results of computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, ...

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 ...