Your salivary glands produce saliva and empty it into your mouth through slots called ducts. When these ducts become blocked, they can't produce enough saliva to moisten your food for proper eating.

The major salivary glands produce approximately one quart of saliva each day, which in turn plays a crucial role in food digestion, swallowing, speech, and protection of teeth against bacteria and ...

MSK’s salivary gland tumor experts, including surgeon Bhuvanesh Singh (center), are among the most experienced in the nation. For many people with salivary gland tumors, surgery performed by an expert ...

Initially, not all salivary glands were thought to be impaired while those glands that demonstrated damage seemed to heal spontaneously without further subjective and objective symptomatology.

3 Sezione Biomedica, Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell'Ambiente, Università di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy 4 Sezione di Anatomia Patologica, Dipartimento di Citomorfologia, Università di ...

Adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) is a rare malignancy of the secretory glands with a high tendency to invade adjacent tissue and spread to the lung, bone or liver. No treatments other than surgery or ...

AVA6000 is designed to treat fibroblast activation protein-positive (FAP-positive) solid tumours, with a particular focus on salivary gland cancer (SGC) treatment. Of the ten trial subjects who ...