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.

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 ...