Medical researchers in the Netherlands discovered two salivary glands located inside the cranial cavity behind the nose hidden inside the human head that somehow scientists have missed for centuries now and have not discovered them before, according to a newspaper report sciencealert The new discovery made by the Dutch team of doctors shows a pair of Glands It is previously overlooked and is located behind the nose and above the palate, near the center of the human head.
According to the report, this “unknown entity” was identified by chance by doctors in the Netherlands, who were examining prostate cancer patients with an advanced type of test called PSMA PET / CT. Using radioactive glucose injection, the diagnostic tool pops up these tumors in the body, but it showed something else entirely, located in the back of the nasopharynx, which has been hidden for a long time..
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“People have three groups of large salivary glands and what scientists have found is that the only salivary or mucous glands in the nasopharynx are microscopically small, and up to 1,000 are evenly spread throughout the mucous membrane,” said radiation oncologist Wouter Vogel of the Netherlands Cancer Institute. But we were surprised to find a pair of large salivary glands behind the nose. “
The salivary glands are the ones that produce the saliva necessary for the digestive system to function, with the bulk of the fluid produced by the three major salivary glands, known as the parotid, submandibular, and sublingual glands..
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There are also approximately 1,000 secondary salivary glands, present throughout the oral cavity and the digestive system, but they are generally too small to be seen without a microscope. Vogel Much larger, showing what appears to be a previously overlooked pair of glands
“It turns out that the two new areas that lit up have other properties of the salivary glands, too, which we call the pyloric glands,” said oral surgeon Mattis Wallstar from the University of Amsterdam.
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