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Salivary stones
Sialolithiasis is a crystallopathy where a calcified mass or sialolith forms within a gland, usually in the duct of the submandibular gland. Less commonly the parotid gland or rarely the sublingual gland or a minor salivary gland may develop salivary stones.
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