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21 (a) Parotid tumor showing elevation of ear lobule (pathognomonic sign). (b) MRI axial view showing the tumor
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Saliva is responsible for various functions from lubrication to digestion. The saliva is secreted by numerous minor and major salivary glands. These salivary glands are sometimes affected by various local and systemic inflammatory conditions, obstructive pathologies with benign and malignant tumors. This chapter deals with various pathologies of sa...
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... Clinical examination alone won't give the proper salivary gland disease diagnosis. Therefore, imaging techniques are fundamental for accurate diagnosis and classification [3] . ...
... Moreover, it was approved that the method of choice for obtaining biopsy for histopathological examination is the USG guided Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC). This adds extra-advantage for the use of USG in discrimination between benign and malignant lesions [3] . Plain X-ray, sialography, CT, MRI and PET-CT are other imaging modalities used for diagnosis and characterization of salivary gland diseases [7] . ...
... Chi-square/ Fisher's Exact test was calculated for assessing the difference in frequency between categorical variables as appropriate. For comparison of PSV, RI, PI and GSS categories in 3 benign and malignant tumors differentiation was done by using Open Epi software (Open Epi version 2.3.1 from Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA. A p-value of <0.05 level was considered significant. ...
