title: [Sialo-ultrasonographic approach of primary tuberculosis of the salivary glands. Apropos of 3 cases].
abstract: Primary tuberculotic involvement of the salivary glands makes up two per cent of all cases of salivary gland tumefaction that we have had to explore with ultrasonography and sialography. The patients are generally young adults of a low socioeconomic status. Sialography is nonspecific, whereas ultrasonography can suggest the diagnosis in the presence of heterogeneous, hypoechogenic intraglandular lesions associated to adenopathies. An IDR with tuberculin is essential for the diagnosis before treatment.
authors.affiliation: Service de Radiologie, Hôpital Habib-Thameur, Tunis, Tunisie.
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Daghfous
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nagi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ben Hajel
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Robbana
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Khaled
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hached
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ben Kheder
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012793:Sialadenitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D012796:Sialography; D014393:Tuberculosis, Oral / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014463:Ultrasonography
vernacular_title: Approche sialo-échographique de la tuberculose primitive des glandes salivaires. A propos de 3 observations.