Bilateral submandibular gland excision and parotid duct ligation.

Drooling : analysis and evaluation of 31 children who underwent bilateral submandibular gland excision and parotid duct ligation . Summary

Bilateral submandibular gland excision with parotid duct ligation for treatment of sialorrhea in children: long-term results.

BACKGROUND Multiple procedures have been advocated for the surgical control of chronic sialorrhea in children. However, some of them are associated with significant complications or only short-term success. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the safety of bilateral submandibular gland excision (SGE) with parotid duct ligation (PDL) and to assess its long-term complications and efficacy in the treatment o...

An anti-drooling operation in cerebral palsy.

Persistent drooling in cases of cerebral palsy can be successfully controlled by a combination of bilateral parotid duct translocation and bilateral submandibular gland excision. Ten children are described who underwent this operation with satisfactory results. Apart from mile transient postoperative swelling of the cheek, there have been no postoperative complications. The importance of bilate...

Synchronous Parotid and Homolateral Submandibular Gland Pleomorphic Adenoma

Introduction: Pleomorphic adenomas are benign neoplasms of salivary glands. The simultaneous homolateral occurrence of these tumors in salivary glands is exceedingly rare.   Case Report: An adult female presenting to our OPD with the swelling of right-sided preauricular and submandibular regions was diagnosed with the pleomorphic adenoma based on fine needle aspiration c...

Dysgenetic polycystic disease of the minor and submandibular salivary glands.

BACKGROUND Dysgenetic polycystic salivary gland disease is a rare pathology. No case of minor salivary gland involvement has been reported in the literature. METHODS A female patient presented with bilateral tumors of the parotid glands, bilateral submandibular gland enlargement, and multiple cystic lesions of the oral mucosa. MRI of the neck was performed along with fine-needle aspiration (F...