Original and Selected Communications Archive Ranula — Abscess of the Parotid Gland Author: Sir B. C. Brodie Author Info & Affiliations ...

Almost immediately after 131 I therapy transient swelling (Fig. 2) and pain with decreased salivary flow, usually bilateral and involving the parotid glands, have become a known problem. [1, 4, 5 ...

Radioactive Iodine and the Salivary Glands Susan J. Mandel, Louis Mandel Disclosures Thyroid. 2003;13 (3) 0 ...

Acute suppurative thyroiditis and thyroid abscesses represent rare yet significant infectious conditions that affect the thyroid gland. Although the thyroid is generally resistant to infection ...

What is salivary gland cancer? The salivary glands are comprised of both major and minor glands. The major glands are the bilateral parotid glands, submandibular glands and sublingual glands. The ...

Salivary Infection: Causes The most common causes of acute salivary gland infections are bacteria, especially Staphylococcus aureus, or staph. Viruses and fungi can also cause infection in the glands.

An elderly male patient with a history of basal cell carcinoma (BCC), which was excised from the right temple in 2013, presented in 2021 with swelling in the right parotid region. This led to a ...