For parotid cancers: Pain, sensory loss or difficulty open ... Incisional or punch biopsies are useful for the diagnosis of minor salivary gland tumors. Imaging studies, MRI in particular, are helpful ...

Mumps, an acute viral infection characterised by parotid gland swelling ... Audiometry revealed a profound hearing loss in the right ear. MRI showed fluid-attenuated inversion recovery ...

Parotid gland may be involved as a part of multicentric CD ... Though there is no specific radiological finding to diagnose CD, recent advances in MRI may help to narrow down the differential ...

In the early 1950s there were four vaccines routinely used in the United States: diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, and smallpox. Three of these vaccines (diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis) were ...

umcg.nl Objective To assess whether ultrasonographic scoring of (i) both parotid and submandibular salivary glands and (ii) all individual components of the Hocevar scoring system, is needed for ...

Out of all the salivary glands, those beneath the jaw, the submandibular glands, are the most frequently affected. The discomfort of a salivary stone will be felt as an intermittent pain, more so ...

To define the temporal responses of fibroblasts to injury, we induced a temporary obstructive injury though ligation of the primary submandibular and sublingual salivary gland ducts and then performed ...

Dynamic imaging has obtained remarkable achievements among a variety of malignant tumors due to the development of multiple simplified scanning protocols and the emergence of whole-body PET/CT ...

Forty seven prostate cancer patients instructed to remove their rectal gas were imaged by planning CT and MRI before radiotherapy (RT) and during RT. The total scan time was comparable to our ...