BACKGROUND The purpose of this retrospective chart review was to determine whether and how the submandibular gland is involved in metastases of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. METHODS We reviewed the records of all patients for whom pathology specimens were available after neck dissection for primary head and neck cancers at two institutions. RESULTS One hundred sixty-nine pat...

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...

Hyposecretion occurs in most patients early after submandibular gland autotransplantation for severe keratoconjunctivitis sicca. Endogenous transient receptor potential vanilloid subtype 1 (TRPV1) has been recently demonstrated in rabbit submandibular glands, and activation of TRPV1 by capsaicin increases secretion in isolated glands, but the TRPV1-mediated secretory mechanism remains to be elu...

BACKGROUND/AIM The submandibular gland is one of the three major salivary glands, producing a mixed secretion; this saliva is hypotonic compared to plasma. It also secretes glucose, but the mechanisms responsible for this process are poorly understood. Our study addressed the question whether glucose transporters are expressed and how are they localized within specific rodent submandibular cell...

The present study was conducted to describe the histological features of parotid and submandibular salivary glands of European hamster. The glands samples were obtained from five adult males and microscopic slides were prepared using routine histological technique. The results showed that these glands divide in lobes associated with the ducts. The parotid was a typical serous gland, but the sub...

Isoproterenol is a potent B-adrenergic agonist which its effect on rabbit salivary Glands has been studied in this research.two groups of male albino rabbits(five in each group with the mean weight of 1000+_300 gr) were injected with 20 mg/kg of  isoproterenol intrapritoneally each day for fifteen days and one similar group(n=5) was chosen as control group.in one of the test groups in addition ...

The head and neck is a complex anatomical region that can be evaluated using many imaging modalities. It is important to discern normal structures from ones that are affected by disease and to study how these structures change in their morphological and functional properties with aging. Therefore, using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), we retrospectively evaluated volumes of the parotid glands...

We sought to compare the diagnostic utility of magnetic resonance sialography (MRS) and digital subtraction sialography (DSS) in patients with suspected sialolithiasis or sialadenitis. Sixteen consecutive patients (4 female and 12 male, mean age 51+/-16 years) with suspected sialolithiasis or sialadenitis underwent DSS by a standard technique and MRS. MRS was obtained with a T2-weighted single-...

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 area of...

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...