Swelling of the neck caused by the submandibular gland on swallowing.
Swellings of the neck are important to note. They may represent inflammations, primary tumors, or metastatic disease. Sometimes, however, there are normal structures that present as swellings and mimic disease. This is an account, with explanation, of a unilateral swelling in the neck that was caused by a normal submandibular gland with aberrant movement.
D000328:Adult; D003679:Deglutition; D005260:Female; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D009068:Movement; D009334:Neck Muscles / Q000502:physiology; D013363:Submandibular Gland / Q000502:physiology*