title: [Surgically treated diseases of the parotid gland in childhood and adolescence].
abstract: Between 1969 and 1986 parotid gland surgery was performed on 86 children and adolescents in the ENT clinic of the University of Tübingen. Chronic recurrent parotitis was found to be the most common chronic inflammatory disease in our young patients. Total parotidectomy was done on 24 children. Because of the high incidence of potential complications the indication for a total parotidectomy in chronic parotitis should be carefully considered. A more hopeful attitude applies to the cystic tumours (haemangioma, lymphangioma and branchiogenic cysts). A solid tumour of the parotid gland in children and adolescents, however, necessitates surgical extirpation without delay because one-third of these tumours are malignant.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003560:Cysts / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D010305:Parotid Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D010306:Parotid Gland / Q000601:surgery; D010307:Parotid Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D010309:Parotitis / Q000601:surgery
vernacular_title: Operativ behandelte Erkrankungen der Glandula parotis im Kindes- und Adoleszentenalter.