Post-Traumatic Surgical Emphysema and Sialocele with Fistula Following Knife Wounds to the Head and Neck of a 30-Year-Old Woman.

BACKGROUND Trauma to the left submandibular gland is an infrequent entity, with only a few cases reported in the literature. Recommended management consists of excision of the gland if trauma is suspected; if trauma is not clearly identified during the surgical exploration and the gland is not removed, post-traumatic complications such as fistula or sialocele may occur. In such cases, conservative measures including aspiration, pressure bandages, and anti-sialogogues are the first step of treatment and surgical excision is reserved for unsuccessful cases.