I had a feeling it was there. There were times when I caught a cold and my parotid gland would swell, and I felt like it got better with antibiotics back then. But before I knew it, my right parotid ...

Finding the right cancer care team can be stressful. Your team of MSK salivary gland cancer experts will ask about your treatment goals and choose the best treatments for you. Your salivary gland care ...

Parotid oncocytoma is a rare benign neoplasm for which surgical excision remains the standard treatment. Although the recurrence rate is generally low, it increases significantly in cases with ...

John Carew, MD, is an otolaryngologist and adjunct assistant professor at the Mount Sinai Medical Center department of otolaryngology and NYU Medical Center. Bacterial and viral infections commonly ...

In patients with myasthenia gravis, the surgical removal of the thymus gland, called thymectomy, added "quality adjusted life years" to patients and was also cost-effective in comparison to ...

Cannabis use disorder (CUD) was associated with a greater than fivefold increased risk for benign tumors of major salivary glands compared to not having CUD, a new retrospective study showed.

Mucoepidermoid carcinoma is the most common type of salivary gland cancer, but it’s rare. Only 1% of head and neck tumors are salivary gland cancer. Your salivary glands are small organs that make ...

Poster presentation to demonstrate EBT-107’s potential to reduce clinically-relevant biomarkers and HBV DNA integration toward functional remission of chronic hepatitis B Oral presentation to ...

Medically reviewed by Edmund Khoo, DDS Key Takeaways A blocked salivary duct can cause pain and swelling during meals, often due to the formation of stones.Most blocked ducts can be treated at home, ...