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  • a  relating to or located near the parotid gland

  • Many of the mice she injected with Gross's "leukemia virus" got solid tumors, mainly in the parotid (salivary) glands.
  • Thus immediately after removal of the parotid gland, site of the commonest form of facial tumor, surgeons now repair the adjacent facial nerve, which is sometimes damaged during .
  • But they can markedly increase the cure rate in cancers of the mouth, nasal sinuses, brain, esophagus, parotid gland.

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