Sialendoscopy in Pediatric Sialolithiasis: Two Cases of Salivary Stones in the Parotid Gland and Review of the Literature

Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2023 Jun;75(2):857-863. doi: 10.1007/s12070-023-03508-8. Epub 2023 Feb 10.

Abstract

Sialolithiasis is one of the most common diseases of the salivary glands and the most common cause of chronic obstructive sialadenitis. Whereas salivary stones are responsible for most of the cases of obstructive sialadenitis in the adult population, sialolithiasis in children is considered relatively rare. We describe two cases of a 9 and a 4-year-old male respectively, with parotid sialolithiasis treated with sialendoscopy. A systematic review of the current literature was also completed in order to evaluate all described cases of parotid sialolithiasis in the pediatric population. We found 25 articles eligible for a total of 42 cases of pediatric parotid sialolithiasis.

Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12070-023-03508-8.

Keywords: Parotid; Pediatric; Sialendoscopy; Sialolithiasis.