Category:Salivary Glands - Pathology
Introduction
- Painful conditions in the mouth lead to increase in salivary secretion and possibly also to failure to swallow the saliva produced,
- e.g. in foot and mouth disease in cattle there is an acute painful stomatitis and this is accompanied by the hypersalivation and partial anorexia.
See anatomy and physiology of the salivary glands
Sjorgren’s-like syndrome
Sialadenosis
- Bilateral, uniform, painless, non-inflammatory enlargement of the salivary glands
- C/s of retching/gulping
- No significant histological abnormalities in the salivary gland biopsies.
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