Pediatric Salivary Gland Disease
8 Pediatric Salivary Gland Disease RICHARD J. SCHMIDT, STEVEN P. COOK AND JAMES S. REILLY The spectrum of diseases of salivary gland origin in children is both different and perhaps…
Facial Paralysis Rehabilitation
16 Facial Paralysis Rehabilitation ARA A. CHALIAN AND SARAH H. KAGAN Patients with facial paralysis suffer significant functional, aesthetic, and psychosocial sequelae. Even single branch weakness or paralysis may leave…
Classic Approaches to Sialoendoscopy for Treatment of Sialolithiasis
7 Classic Approaches to Sialoendoscopy for Treatment of Sialolithiasis ODED NAHLIELI Obstructive sialadenitis, with or without sialolithiasis, represents the main inflammatory disorder of the major salivary glands. The diagnosis and…
Sialadenitis
5 Sialadenitis KELLY M. MALLOY, DAVID ROSEN AND MARC R. ROSEN Sialadenitis refers to the various inflammatory conditions affecting the salivary glands. It has been recognized as a disease entity…
Imaging of the Salivary Glands
2 Imaging of the Salivary Glands LAURIE A. LOEVNER AND MADHAVI L. BATTINENI The imaging algorithm for assessing the salivary glands depends on the clinical scenario with which the patient…
Salivary Gland Anatomy
1 Salivary Gland Anatomy MICHAEL B. RHO AND DANIEL G. DESCHLER The salivary gland system of the upper aerodigestive tract plays a critical role in the functions of digestion, respiration,…
Histology, Epithelial Metaplasias, and Noninflammatory and Non-neoplastic Lesions of the Salivary Glands
4 Histology, Epithelial Metaplasias, and Noninïammatory and Non-neoplastic Lesions of the Salivary Glands MARY F. CUNNANE AND GREGORY J. ARTZ Like exocrine glands generally, the salivary glands are composed of…
Advances in Radiation Therapy for Salivary Gland Neoplasms
13 Advances in Radiation Therapy for Salivary Gland Neoplasms ADAM RABEN Several chapters on the management of major and minor salivary gland cancers have been written over the last decade,…
Histology and Pathology of Sialolithiasis
6 Histology and Pathology of Sialolithiasis JOHN D. HARRISON The background to our present understanding of sialolithiasis starts in 1896, when Küttner1 published his observations on two patients who had…
Treatment of Salivary Lymphoma and Advanced Nonlymphoid Malignant Salivary Gland Neoplasms
12 Treatment of Salivary Lymphoma and Advanced Nonlymphoid Malignant Salivary Gland Neoplasms CHARLES J. SCHNEIDER The majority of lymphomas involving head and neck sites are secondary “nodal” lymphomas, which most…
