Over at Last Word On Nothing, Cassandra Willyard tells the harrowing tale of a sialolith-extraction lived ... for the formation of stones in the salivary gland. María’s stone had worked its ...

4 Parotid gland removal should only be carried out for cases of sialolithiasis resistant to minimally invasive techniques. Leung AK, Choi MC, Wagner GA Multiple sialolths and a sialolith of ...

A rare 2-cm-long sialolith was removed, according to a new case report. Any salivary stone that is larger than 1.5 cm is considered rare, according to the authors of the report, published in BMJ Case ...