title: Iatrogenic salivary duct injury in head and neck cancer patients: Report of four cases and review of the literature.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The lesions of the salivary ducts may be idiopathic, post- traumatic, or iatrogenic and lead to sialocele formation with persistent painful facial swelling or cutaneous fistula formation. No consensus on treatment of this condition exists: the options of treatment include needle aspiration, pressure dressings, antisialogogue therapy, radiotherapy, botulinum toxin and surgical approaches as duct repair, diversion, ligation, different drainage systems and even parotidectomy/submaxilectomy. The management and special features of iatrogenic salivary duct injury in patients with oral cancer who underwent head and neck reconstructive surgery has not been described yet.
  
  
  METHODS
  We present four cases of iatrogenic lesions of salivary ducts and its management in patients with oral cancer.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The iatrogenic lesions of salivary ducts are to be taken into account in patients with oral cancer as the distal ends of salivary ducts could be involved in the margins of surgical resection. Different options of treatment of this complication are described. Key words:Sialocele, oral cancer, salivary duct.
authors.affiliation: Resident Physician in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Gregorio Marañon, General University Hospital. Madrid. Spain.
authors.forename: Alena
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kulyapina
authors.affiliation: MD, PhD. Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Gregorio Marañon, General University Hospital. Madrid. Spain.
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lopez-de-Atalaya
authors.affiliation: MD. Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Gregorio Marañon, General University Hospital. Madrid. Spain.
authors.forename: Santiago
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ochandiano-Caicoya
authors.affiliation: MD, PhD. Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Gregorio Marañon, General University Hospital. Madrid. Spain.
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Navarro-Cuellar
authors.affiliation: MD. Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Gregorio Marañon, General University Hospital. Madrid. Spain.
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Navarro-Vila