title: [Current status of serial sialography and sialoscintigraphy in the diagnosis of salivary gland diseases].
abstract: Sialographic investigation of enlarged salivary glands contribute to the important decision whether a secretion blockage is caused by a stone, chronic inflammation, sialoadenosis, or a tumour. The results of sialographic investigations have been much improved by the method described by Brands and Schnepper (1967) of specific serial sialography using a single-shot and fast-repeating camera, under fluoroscopic control. The success rate of the sialographic diagnosis on 141 patients in the ENT Department of Saarland University Hospital was 80%. The fact that in four cases spaces, occupying lesions were falsely interpreted or undetected leads to the conclusion that where a tumour is suspected negative sialography should be followed by further diagnostic steps. Scintigraphy of the salivary glands with 4 mCi 99mTechnetium Pertechnetate produces extra information which clearly increases diagnostic accuracy. However, experience to date shows that it is not an alternative to serial sialography but rather a supporting diagnostic method.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010307:Parotid Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D012466:Salivary Gland Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D012468:Salivary Gland Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D012793:Sialadenitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012796:Sialography / Q000379:methods*; D012859:Sjogren's Syndrome / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013670:Sodium Pertechnetate Tc 99m; D013667:Technetium
chemical_list: D013667:Technetium; D013670:Sodium Pertechnetate Tc 99m
vernacular_title: Die Stellung der Seriensialographie und Sialoszintigraphie in der Diagnostik von Speicheldrüsenerkrankungen.