Interventional sialography: a single-center experience.

Abstract

PURPOSE:

To evaluate interventional sialography for the treatment of chronic recurrent sialadenitis due to calculus and/or stricture.

METHODS:

We performed a retrospective review and follow-up of 12 patients treated over a 3-year period. The techniques for calculus extraction by papillotomy and basket extraction, and stricture dilatation by a combination of predilation with lacrimal dilators and then angioplasty balloons are described and the literature is reviewed.

RESULTS:

Follow-up of 1-40 months (mean 14.6 months) showed that 7 of 12 patients remained symptom free and 2 others became asymptomatic after an interval. There were no major complications from the procedure.

CONCLUSION:

Interventional sialography is a safe and acceptable alternative to surgery and can be considered as first-line therapy for symptomatic salivary duct calculus and stricture.

• Authors: R P Davies, A M Whyte, C L Lui
• Journal: Cardiovascular and interventional radiology (Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol) 1997 Sep-Oct Vol. 20 Issue 5 Pg. 331-6 ISSN: 0174-1551 [Print] United States
• PMID: 9271641 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

Topics

• Catheterization
• Constriction, Pathologic (diagnostic imaging, therapy)
• Female
• Humans
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Radiography, Interventional
• Recurrence
• Retrospective Studies
• Salivary Duct Calculi (complications, diagnostic imaging, therapy)
• Salivary Ducts (pathology)
• Sialadenitis (diagnostic imaging, etiology, therapy)
• Sialography