Diseases of the Salivary Glands Including Dry Mouth and Sjögren's Syndrome :
[Book]
Diagnosis and Treatment
by Isaäc Waal.
Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
1997
(x, 147 pages 58 illustrations)
1 Dry Mouth and Hypersalivation --;1.1 Introduction --;1.2 Composition of Saliva --;1.3 Collection of Saliva and Measurement of Flow Rate --;1.4 Hyposalivation and Xerostomia --;1.5 Hypersalivation --;2 Inflammatory Diseases --;2.1 Introduction --;2.2 Sialadenitis of the Parotid Gland --;2.3 Sialadenitis of the Submandibular Gland --;2.4 Sialadenitis of the Sublingual Gland --;2.5 Sialadenitis of the Intraoral Salivary Glands --;3 Sjögren's Syndrome --;3.1 Definition --;3.2 Etiology --;3.3 Epidemiology --;3.4 Clinical Aspects --;3.5 Diagnostic Aspects --;3.6 Histological Aspects --;3.7 Treatment and Prognosis --;4 Cysts --;4.1 Cysts of Major Salivary Glands --;4.2 Cysts of Minor Salivary Glands --;4.3 Intraosseous Cyst of Possible Salivary Gland Origin --;5 Neoplasms --;5.1 Introduction --;5.2 Etiology and Histogenesis --;5.3 Epidemiology --;5.4 Clinical Aspects --;5.5 TNM Staging --;5.6 Imaging Techniques --;5.7 Cytological Aspects --;5.8 Histological Aspects --;5.9 Treatment and Prognosis --;6 Miscellaneous Lesions and Conditions --;6.1 Diagnostic Value of Saliva --;6.2 Benign Lymphoepithelial Lesion --;6.3 Developmental Disturbances --;6.4 Frey's Syndrome --;6.5 Necrotizing Sialometaplasia --;6.6 Parotid and Submandibular Fistula --;6.7 Pneumoparotis --;6.8 Salivary Gland Involvement in Systemic Diseases --;6.9 Sialadenosis --;6.10 Sialolithiasis --;6.11 Irradiation Damage of Salivary Gland Tissue.
Both the major and minor salivary glands can be the site of a wide variety of diseases and functional disturbances. Much attention is given to the problematic complaint of dry mouth and the even more cumbersome diagnostic aspects of Sjoegren's syndrome.