Professional paper
The Value of Digital Subtraction Sialography in the Diagnosis of Diseases of the Salivary Glands
Zdravko Borković
Berislav Perić
Ivan Ožegović
Abstract
The study included patients in whom digital subtraction sialography was performed in the diagnosis of sialolithiasis, chronic and chronicrecurrent inflammations, and other pathological conditions of the salivary glands. A group of 42 patients was examined, consisting of 6 women and 36 men with signs of chronic inflammatory processes, suspected sialolithiasis, dislocation of the duct and Sjögren’s syndrome. The method of digital subtraction sialography provides excellent presentation of the secretory canal of the salivary gland and small intraductal canals up to the glandular parenchyma. The method enables excellent vision of alterations within the parenchyma, changes which have an effect on the lumen and position of the canal, and eventual changes which are conditioned by external factors. The smallest canal structures are also shown by this method. Thus, the possibility of an erroneous finding, which frequently occurs with other diagnostic methods, is significantly reduced.
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Hrčak ID:
10361
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Publication date:
15.12.2002.
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