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. 2022 Oct 27;9(11):1632.
doi: 10.3390/children9111632.

Sialendoscopy in Management of Juvenile Recurrent Parotitis-A Single Centre Experience

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Sialendoscopy in Management of Juvenile Recurrent Parotitis-A Single Centre Experience

Luka PuÅĄnik et al. Children (Basel). .

Abstract

Juvenile recurrent parotitis is a rare inflammatory disease of the parotid gland that shares diverse therapeutic management between institutions. Sialendoscopy has been demonstrated as an efficient diagnostics and therapeutic method with minimal complications; however, due to the rarity of the disease and limited data, there is a lack of universal guidelines on its optimal management. Herein, we retrospectively analysed patients with juvenile recurrent parotitis who had the sialendoscopy performed at our tertiary centre. Descriptive data were retrieved along with the number of swelling episodes one year before and after the sialendoscopy intervention. In the last decade, twenty-nine sialendoscopic procedures were performed at our clinics on twenty-one patients diagnosed with juvenile recurrent parotitis. Most of them underwent the procedure under general anaesthesia (86%). In the year before and after the sialendoscopic procedure, the patients had 3.9 ± 2.7 and 0.2 ± 0.4 episodes of swelling per year, respectively. The difference proved to be statistically significant (p < 0.0001). The complete resolution was noted in sixteen patients (76%); however, the procedure was not repeated on the same side of any patient. Solely one patient had a relapse of the disease reported more than twelve months after the sialendoscopy, nonetheless, one of his exacerbation episodes was already reported in the first year after the sialendoscopy. The mean follow-up period of patients was 48.6 months (range, 13−116 months). All things considered, this study emphasises sialendoscopy as an effective minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic tool for the management of juvenile recurrent parotitis.

Keywords: juvenile recurrent parotitis; minimally invasive surgery; otorhinolaryngology; salivary gland disease; sialendoscopy.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Ultrasound diagnostics of juvenile recurrent parotitis. (a) displays a unilaterally affected parotid gland on the right side of a patient. Note heterogeneous parenchyma with several hypoechoic nodules indicating duct dilatation. (b) demonstrates increased blood flow of the same parotid gland with Doppler mode. In (c), a normal parotid gland on the left side of the same infant is shown as a comparison.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Sialendoscopic appearance of the parotid duct. (a) displays the endoscopic appearance of pale mucosa. (b) depicts guiding wire introduced during the sialendoscopic procedure to overpass the stenosis. (c) shows mucus in the main salivary duct.

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