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Inflammatory diseases of the salivary glands in infants and adolescents.

Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University of Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Street 40, D-37075 Göttingen, Germany.
International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology (impact factor: 1.17). 02/2006; 70(1):129-36. DOI:10.1016/j.ijporl.2005.06.012 pp.129-36
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ABSTRACT To determine retrospectively the localization, etiology and treatment of inflammatory diseases of the salivary glands in infants and children and to evaluate treatment outcome.
Forty-five patients were treated in our institution in the period 1966-2000. The patients' records were evaluated and the results and side-effects of therapy were documented by a controlled follow-up study.
Twenty-five of our patients were females (55.6%) and 20 males (44.4%). Inflammatory disorders figured most prominently in the group of patients between 12 and 16 years (n=14). Inflammation of the submandibular glands was the most common disease with 53.3% (n=24). The most frequent underlying cause in this subgroup of acute and chronic sialadenitis was sialolithiasis of the submandibular gland (40%). All patients were symptom-free in the long-term follow-up and all were symptom-free after surgical intervention.
The present study shows that diseases of the salivary glands are rare among infants and children. Acute and chronic sialadenitis not responding to conservative treatment requires an appropriate surgical approach.

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    Article: Diseases of the salivary glands in infants and adolescents.
    Maik Ellies, Rainer Laskawi
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    ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Diseases of the salivary glands are rare in infants and children (with the exception of diseases such as parotitis epidemica and cytomegaly) and the therapeutic regimen differs from that in adults. It is therefore all the more important to gain exact and extensive insight into general and special aspects of pathological changes of the salivary glands in these age groups. Etiology and pathogenesis of these entities is still not yet fully known for the age group in question so that general rules for treatment, based on clinical experience, cannot be given, particularly in view of the small number of cases of the different diseases. Swellings of the salivary glands may be caused by acute and chronic inflammatory processes, by autoimmune diseases, by duct translocation due to sialolithiasis, and by tumors of varying dignity. Clinical examination and diagnosis has also to differentiate between salivary gland cysts and inflammation or tumors. CONCLUSION: Salivary gland diseases are rare in childhood and adolescence. Their pattern of incidence differs very much from that of adults. Acute and chronic sialadenitis not responding to conservative treatment requires an appropriate surgical approach. The rareness of salivary gland tumors is particularly true for the malignant parotid tumors which are more frequent in juvenile patients, a fact that has to be considered in diagnosis and therapy.
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