Pediatric recurrent sialectasis: case report.
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1989Author
Opinya Gladys N.
Imalingat, B
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A 2 1/2-year-old female presented to the Department of Paediatrics with a fever (38.2 degrees C) and bilateral swelling of the parotid salivary glands. A month later, she presented with similar signs and symptoms. Three months later the patient had a third attack and was referred to the Paediatric Dental Department. A clinical examination and sialography showed a normal Stensen's duct. The parenchyma of the right parotid had a combination of punctate lesions (1-2 mm in diameter) and globular lesions (3 mm in diameter). In the left parotid there were punctate lesions approximately 1 mm in diameter. The patient was managed with antipyretics (acetaminophen) and penicillin. This condition should be referred to as sialadenitis pediatrica as it presents as a clinical entity with signs and symptoms of swelling and pyrexia in the absence of sialography and histological findings. It is referred to as sialectasis after histological and sialographic observations detect lesions affecting the parenchyma of the salivary glands.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2626340http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/31771
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Pediatr Dent. 1989 Mar;11(1):52-4.Publisher
Department of Dental Surgery, College of Health Sciences. University of Nairobi
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