title: [Sialoendoscopy: a new alternative for the treatment of salivary pathology. Our experience].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Sialoendoscopy is a procedure used to visualize the salivary ducts and their pathology. It can be used either as a diagnostic method to rule out inflammatory processes in the parotid and submandibular glands (diagnostic sialoendoscopy) or to treat pathological areas (stenosis, extract foreign bodies or sialolithiasis) through the use of appropriate instruments (interventionist sialoendoscopy). We attempt to prove a declining rate of salivary gland excision.
  
  
  METHODS
  Sialoendoscopy was performed in 8 patients.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of these, 50 % of patients were diagnosed as having sialolithiasis and the other 50 % had chronic sialoadenitis. In patients with sialolithiasis, sialoendoscopy allowed the extraction of the calculus in two patients (50 %). In the remainder, sialoendoscopy provided confirmation of the diagnosis in all cases.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Sialoendoscopy is a new technique for use in the diagnosis, treatment and post-operative management of sialolithiasis, sialoadenitis and other salivary gland pathologies.
authors: Departamento de Otorrinolaringología, Clínica Universitaria de Navarra, Pamplona, Navarra, Spain.
authors: Peter M
authors: PM
authors: Baptista
authors: Carlos
authors: C
authors: Gimeno-Vilar
authors: Jorge A
authors: JA
authors: Rey-Martínez
authors: Manuele
authors: M
authors: Casale-Falcone
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D019723:Endoscopes; D004724:Endoscopy; D004867:Equipment Design; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015494:Salivary Gland Calculi / Q000628:therapy*; D012793:Sialadenitis / Q000628:therapy*