title: Juvenile recurrent parotitis in children: diagnosis and treatment using sialography.
abstract: Juvenile recurrent parotitis (JRP) is a nonobstructive, nonsuppurative parotid inflammation in young children. Causative factors are many such as allergy, infection, local autoimmune manifestations, and genetic inheritance have been suggested, but none have been proved. Parotid sialography is a hallmark in the diagnosis of JRP but newer modalities such as ultrasonography, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging-sialography are noninvasive investigative techniques. Recurrent attacks are often managed conservatively. Here we report a case of a 5-year-old child with JRP. Sailography can be used as both diagnostic and therapeutic modality.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, GITAM Dental College and Hospital, Rushikonda, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Vanga V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Narsimha Rao
authors.forename: Jai Shankar Homberhali
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Putta Buddi
authors.forename: Ameet J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Kurthukoti
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010309:Parotitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography; D012008:Recurrence; D014463:Ultrasonography