Madurai: A pet dog underwent surgery for salivary mucocele, a condition involving swollen salivary gland resulting in saliva leaking into surrounding .

Veterinarians at Government Veterinary Polyclinic here on Wednesday successfully treated a 11-year-old male dog with salivary ... leaking from a damaged salivary gland or duct into surrounding ...

Initially, not all salivary glands were thought to be impaired while those glands that demonstrated damage seemed to heal spontaneously without further subjective and objective symptomatology.