Assessment of salivary gland pathology.
At this institution, inflammatory problems and calculous disease are evaluated by plain films or sialography. CT can be used for stone evaluation but is not usually necessary. Although CT has been the mainstay of tumor evaluation, magnetic resonance imaging has several very definite advantages and is likely to supercede CT as the procedure of choice.
D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D012466:Salivary Gland Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012468:Salivary Gland Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D012796:Sialography; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed