OBJECTIVE To assess the relevance of sialendoscopy as a diagnostic and interventional procedure in juvenile recurrent parotitis (JRP). DESIGN Prospective case series study. SETTING Tertiary care teaching hospital. PATIENTS Sialendoscopy was used to examine 10 children (age range, 1.8-13.0 years) with symptomatic JRP for recurrent swelling of the parotid glands between January 2003 and Jan...

conclusions acute suppurative parotitis should be suspected in infants with fever, and irritability in pre-auricular region; and should be treated with appropriate antibiotics. case presentation a 32-day-old girl with fever and restlessness was admitted in the hospital. left facial swelling was found during physical examination. redness was observed in the face. prenatal history was normal. bir...

The congenital abnormality of the heart consisting of pulmonary stenosis, ventricular septal defect, and an overriding aorta was described in 1673 by the Danish scholar, Nicolas Stensen (Warburg, 1942). Fallot's (Fallot, 1888) description included right ventricular hypertrophy as an essential part of the malformation. Stensen had made no mention of this, possibly because he reported on the hear...

MAJOR SALIVARY GLANDS OF BOTH HUMANS AND RODENTS CONSIST OF THREE PAIRS OF MACROSCOPIC GLANDS: parotid, submandibular, and sublingual. These glands secrete serous, mucous or mixed saliva via the proper main excretory ducts connecting the glandular bodies with the oral cavity. A series of discoveries about the salivary ducts in the 17th century by Niels Stensen (1638-1686), Thomas Wharton (1614-...