A Rare Case of a Giant Sialolith Within Wharton’s Duct

Sialolithiasis is a common disease characterized by the formation of calculi within the salivary glands or their ducts. Although many cases of large stones located within the submandibular gland have previously been reported, the presence of a giant stone within Wharton’s duct is extremely rare. We...

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Autores principales: Chaidas, Konstantinos, Lialiaris, Stergios, Pavlou, Angeliki Vasiliki, Katotomichelakis, Michael, Papouliakos, Sotirios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10082938/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37041900
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.35969
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author Chaidas, Konstantinos
Lialiaris, Stergios
Pavlou, Angeliki Vasiliki
Katotomichelakis, Michael
Papouliakos, Sotirios
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description Sialolithiasis is a common disease characterized by the formation of calculi within the salivary glands or their ducts. Although many cases of large stones located within the submandibular gland have previously been reported, the presence of a giant stone within Wharton’s duct is extremely rare. We report the case of a patient who presented with an unusually large stone measuring about 6 cm in the greatest dimension located within Wharton’s duct and causing local swelling and pain. The sialolith was successfully removed intraorally indicating that a minor procedure under local anesthesia can be a successful treatment modality even in the case of a giant sialolith.
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spelling pubmed-100829382023-04-10 A Rare Case of a Giant Sialolith Within Wharton’s Duct Chaidas, Konstantinos Lialiaris, Stergios Pavlou, Angeliki Vasiliki Katotomichelakis, Michael Papouliakos, Sotirios Cureus Emergency Medicine Sialolithiasis is a common disease characterized by the formation of calculi within the salivary glands or their ducts. Although many cases of large stones located within the submandibular gland have previously been reported, the presence of a giant stone within Wharton’s duct is extremely rare. We report the case of a patient who presented with an unusually large stone measuring about 6 cm in the greatest dimension located within Wharton’s duct and causing local swelling and pain. The sialolith was successfully removed intraorally indicating that a minor procedure under local anesthesia can be a successful treatment modality even in the case of a giant sialolith. Cureus 2023-03-10 /pmc/articles/PMC10082938/ /pubmed/37041900 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.35969 Text en Copyright © 2023, Chaidas et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Chaidas, Konstantinos
Lialiaris, Stergios
Pavlou, Angeliki Vasiliki
Katotomichelakis, Michael
Papouliakos, Sotirios
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title_short A Rare Case of a Giant Sialolith Within Wharton’s Duct
title_sort rare case of a giant sialolith within wharton’s duct
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10082938/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.35969
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