BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE MR sialography has become an alternative imaging technique for ductal salivary gland diseases. We compared the diagnostic accuracies of MR sialography and digital subtraction sialography in patients with successful completion of both examinations and benign salivary gland disorders. METHODS In a prospective study, we attempted to examine salivary glands in 80 patients w...

OBJECTIVE Sialography is an important means for evaluating parotid gland damage in patients with Sjögren's syndrome (SS). However, 'conventional' X-ray sialography is invasive and sometimes difficult to perform and repeat, especially for young patients. Recently, magnetic resonance (MR) sialography has been used in adult SS patients. In this study, we investigated the usefulness of MR sialograp...

Sialolithiasis is the most common disorder of major salivary glands. The main site of salivary stones' formation is submandibular gland, followed by parotid and sublingual gland. The aim of this article was to present current diagnostic imaging modalities carried out in patients suspected with salivary stones on the basis of own material and review of literature.Current diagnostic imaging tools...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to assess cone-beam computed (CBCT) sialography imaging in the detection of different changes associated with lesions of salivary glands. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study consisted of 8 cases with signs and symptoms from salivary gland lesions. Conventional sialography using digital panoramic and lateral oblique radiographs and CBCT sialography were perfo...

OBJECTIVES Salivary ultrasonography (US) was evaluated as an alternative imaging modality to sialography for Sjögren's syndrome (SS). METHODS Parotid sialography and parotid and submandibular US were performed in 360 patients (188 with SS and 172 non-SS) who were suspected of SS and had fulfilled the American-European criteria (AEC) for SS or had received > or =3 of the objective examinations...

PURPOSE To revisit and reintroduce sialography as an important tool for the assessment and diagnosis of salivary gland obstruction. PATIENTS AND METHODS A sample of 30 consecutive patients undergoing sialography was selected. Parotid sialography was performed in 22 patients (12 females and 10 males). The patients undergoing parotid sialography presented with bilateral or unilateral enlargemen...

OBJECTIVE The present study examined the reliability and correlation of sialography, salivary gland biopsy, and ultrasonography for Sjögren syndrome (SS) and evaluated the usefulness of ultrasonography as a diagnostic tool for SS compared with sialography and histopathology. STUDY DESIGN Seventy-three patients who underwent sialography, ultrasonography, and salivary gland biopsy were included...

PURPOSE To evaluate the diagnostic potential of three-dimensional image processing of ultrafast CT sialography in comparison with conventional CT sialography in patients with parotid masses. METHODS In nine patients, CT sialography was done with three-dimensional image processing. The visibility of anatomic details and pathologic findings, derived from three-dimensional images, were graded nu...

Sialography is the retrograde injection of an iodinated contrast agent into the ductal system of salivary glands and this technique is the only method capable of adequately demonstrating the status of the ductal system. One of the indications of sialography is classification of the salivary ductal system fistulae. This classification has important prognostic and therapeutic values. In the prese...