Salivary glands

• salivary retention cyst
  18 March 2013

  salivary mucous retention cysts
  Mucous retention cysts do have a true epithelial lining.
  The simple ranula is a form of mucous retention cyst involving the ducts of the sublingual salivary gland and typically presents as an asymptomatic soft, fluid-filled mass in the lateral floor of mouth.

• salivary obstructive anomalies
  18 March 2013

  Salivary Obstructive Disorders
  Types
  mucoceles and mucous retention cysts
  sialolithiasis
  Stenosis, stricture, or congenital atresia
  Kussmaul disease (sialodochitis fibrinosa)

• granulomatous sialadenitis
  18 March 2013

  Tuberculous and non-tuberculous (atypical) mycobacterial involvement of the salivary glands may occur.
  Primary tuberculous infection of the salivary glands is uncommon and most often consists of unilateral parotid gland involvement. The infection is thought to arise in the teeth or tonsils and may result in acute inflammation or a chronic tumorlike lesion.
  Secondary tuberculosis more often involves the submandibular or sublingual glands and is accompanied by pulmonary disease. Diagnosis (...)

• The non-neoplastic salivary gland diseases...
  18 March 2013

  The non-neoplastic salivary gland diseases represent a disparate group of disorders affecting both the major and minor salivary glands.
  These conditions range from inflammatory disorders of infectious, granulomatous, or autoimmune etiology to obstructive, developmental, and idiopathic disorders.
  The major salivary glands are most often involved, and many of these salivary gland disorders are associated with the presence of other systemic illnesses. A thorough history and physical (...)

• acute suppurative sialadenitis
  18 March 2013

  Acute suppurative sialadenitis is most commonly bacterial in origin and most often involves the parotid, and to a lesser extent, the submandibular glands.
  The more mucinous saliva produced by the submandibular glands is felt to confer more bacteristatic properties than the serous saliva of the parotids. The causative agent most frequently implicated is Staphylococcus aureus.
  Other aerobic organisms isolated are Streptococcus pneumoniae, Hemophilus influenzae, and Escherichia coli. (...)

• Acute inflammation of the salivary glands is...
  18 March 2013

  Acute inflammation of the salivary glands is usually of viral or bacterial origin.
  Of the viral illnesses, mumps is the most common. This illness is caused by an RNA virus from the paramyxovirus group and typically involves the parotid glands bilaterally.
  Children are most often affected with peak incidence at approximately 4 to 6 years of age. Transmission is via infected respiratory droplets.
  The parotid swelling is accompanied by constitional symptoms such as fever and malaise, and (...)

• recurrent parotiditis of childhood
  18 March 2013

  Recurrent parotiditis of childhood may affect children up to the age of 12 years and is more common in males than females and differs from the adult form in this regard.
  Symptoms usually include the sudden onset of uni- or bilateral parotid swelling with varying degrees of enlargement.
  There may be mild discomfort, but the child is usually not visibly ill and xerostomia is not present. Salivary chemistries are altered as in the adult. The condition may resolve at puberty or continue on (...)

• chronic sialadenitis
  18 March 2013

  PO
  Definition : chronic inflammation of salivary glands.
  Decreased salivary flow with stasis is a key factor in chronic sialadenitis. Like acute sialadenitis, this condition is more common in the parotid gland. Its development is often associated with a previous episode of acute suppurative inflammation with subsequent glandular destruction. Another possibility is the recurrent parotitis of childhood which has continued into adulthood.
  With the onset of the chronic inflammatory (...)

• salivary oncocytosis
  2 September 2012

  Nodular oncocytic hyperplasia
  Nodular oncocytic hyperplasia (oncocytosis) of the salivary glands is a benign process that does not inherently require surgical excision.
  Although oncocytosis demonstrates some overlap with Warthin tumor and oncocytoma, it lacks the diagnostic findings specific to oncocytic salivary gland tumors such as salivary duct carcinoma , acinic cell carcinoma , mammary analog secretory carcinoma , and mucoepidermoid carcinoma.
  Despite current limitations in the (...)

• salivary oncocytic nodular hyperplasia
  2 September 2012

  Digital case
  JRC:18973 : Oncocytic nodular hyperplasia in Warthin tumor with a discussion of oncocytoma and diffuse oncocytosis ( M / Age: 79.00 / Organ: Left parotid gland).

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