Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to M Cesnek.
The author presents a report on a group of 11 children with chronic recurrent parotitis, treated at the ENT department in Cadca. The author emphasizes the importance of sialography for establishment of the diagnosis of this disease and draws attention to therapeutic possibilities.
The author emphasizes the importance of sialography in the diagnosis of diseases of the salivary glands. By using an intravenous polyethylene cannula it is possible to combine functional examination of the salivary glands (sialometry and sialochemistry) with X-ray examination after filling the glands with contrast substance. In a group of 34 patients sialography contributed to a correct diagnosis in 26 patients, i.e. 76.5%. False positive results were recorded in 1 case (2.9%), false negative results in three (8.8%). From a total of eight tumours of the salivary glands the examination in two cases (25%) did not lead to a correct diagnosis. In 16 instances (47%) the conclusion of the sialographic examination was compared with results of the histological and cytological examination.