Parotitis surgery

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Luke Rusowicz-Orazem, B.S.

Overview

Surgery is recommended for recalcitrant infections, abscess drainage, and to obtain tissue if a noninfectious cause is suspected.

Surgery

Sialendoscopy

• Sialendoscopy is used to relieve parotitis caused by salivary duct stone obstruction.
• It is a minimally-invasive surgical procedure to remove salivary gland stones using graspers, miniforceps, Dormia baskets and balloons.
  • Stones with diameter <3mm: stone is removed directly.
  • Stones with diameter >3mm: stone is fragmented beforehand using concentrated lasers.

Abscess drainage

• Parotitis caused by an abscess from bacterial infection can be relieved by drainage.