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Methods: In total, 124 parotid glands of 62 patients with oral cancer were evaluated with SWE. The parotid glands were examined for the internal architecture (homogeneous or heterogeneous) on B-mode. The SWE allowed the operator to place regions of interest (ROIs) for parotid glands, and displayed automatically shear elastic modulus data (kPa) for each ROI. Gender and internal architecture were compared with the shear elastic modulus of the parotid glands by Mann\u2013Whitney U-test. The comparison of age and shear elastic modulus was assessed using Spearman\u2019s correlation coefficient. p &lt; 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: The shear elastic modulus of the parotid glands was not significantly different for according to gender (males, 7.70 \u00b1 2.22 kPa and females, 7.67 \u00b1 2.41 kPa, p = 0.973) or internal architecture (homogeneous: 7.69 \u00b1 2.25 kPa and heterogeneous: 7.72 \u00b1 2.74 kPa, p = 0.981). Furthermore, the shear elastic modulus was not correlated with age (n = 124, R = \u22120.133, p = 0.139). Conclusion: Our study showed the control data of the shear elastic modulus of the parotid glands for SS. 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