Giant Sialolith of the Submandibular Salivary Gland

We report the case of a 48-year-old man who had an unusually large submandibular gland sialolith (2.6 cm in greatest dimension), which led to sialadenitis and subsequent abscess formation. We describe the management of this patient and review the literature with emphasis on the various modalities av...

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Autores principales: Biddle, Royce J., Arora, Sandeep
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4896171/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27303513
http://dx.doi.org/10.2484/rcr.2007.v3i2.101
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description We report the case of a 48-year-old man who had an unusually large submandibular gland sialolith (2.6 cm in greatest dimension), which led to sialadenitis and subsequent abscess formation. We describe the management of this patient and review the literature with emphasis on the various modalities available for diagnostic imaging.
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spelling pubmed-48961712016-06-14 Giant Sialolith of the Submandibular Salivary Gland Biddle, Royce J. Arora, Sandeep Radiol Case Rep Article We report the case of a 48-year-old man who had an unusually large submandibular gland sialolith (2.6 cm in greatest dimension), which led to sialadenitis and subsequent abscess formation. We describe the management of this patient and review the literature with emphasis on the various modalities available for diagnostic imaging. Elsevier 2015-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4896171/ /pubmed/27303513 http://dx.doi.org/10.2484/rcr.2007.v3i2.101 Text en © 2008 The Authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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