[Current status of serial sialography and sialoscintigraphy in the diagnosis of salivary gland diseases]

HNO. 1984 May;32(5):200-4.
[Article in German]

Abstract

Sialographic investigation of enlarged salivary glands contribute to the important decision whether a secretion blockage is caused by a stone, chronic inflammation, sialoadenosis, or a tumour. The results of sialographic investigations have been much improved by the method described by Brands and Schnepper (1967) of specific serial sialography using a single-shot and fast-repeating camera, under fluoroscopic control. The success rate of the sialographic diagnosis on 141 patients in the ENT Department of Saarland University Hospital was 80%. The fact that in four cases spaces, occupying lesions were falsely interpreted or undetected leads to the conclusion that where a tumour is suspected negative sialography should be followed by further diagnostic steps. Scintigraphy of the salivary glands with 4 mCi 99mTechnetium Pertechnetate produces extra information which clearly increases diagnostic accuracy. However, experience to date shows that it is not an alternative to serial sialography but rather a supporting diagnostic method.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Parotid Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Radionuclide Imaging
  • Salivary Gland Diseases / diagnostic imaging*
  • Salivary Gland Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Sialadenitis / diagnostic imaging
  • Sialography / methods*
  • Sjogren's Syndrome / diagnostic imaging
  • Sodium Pertechnetate Tc 99m
  • Technetium

Substances

  • Technetium
  • Sodium Pertechnetate Tc 99m