[Imaging protocol in salivary pathology].

Numerous techniques have been used for imaging salivary glands including standard radiography, scintigraphy, sialography, echography, computed tomography and finally NMI. These different techniques each have their own indications or complementary role. We therefore developed a protocol for using the different imaging techniques according to the different salivary pathologies encountered.

[For practical salivary flowmetry. A weighing technic].

No one method of salivary flowmetry has been found to be practical, reliable and fully significant. Consequently, the diagnosis of salivary gland failure remains uncertain and imprecise even though the diagnostic question is often raised. A simplified and effective weight measurement could be more widely used.

[Salivary calculi].

Salivary calculi are frequent and revealed by very painful signs, which need an urgent therapy. These calculi are more often localized in the submaxillary gland, sometimes in the parotid gland, and unfrequently in the sublingual glands. Their clinical signs include an increased volume of the gland (salivary hernia), pain of infectious complication.

[Late solitary and benign neurilemmoma of the pterygo-maxillary region].

The neurilemmoma of the pterygoid fossa are very rare. The authors reports one case of a 32 years old man, with such a neoplasm, exteriorized on the lateral facial region (area of the glandula parotis) clinical and radiological data could not differentiate benign neurilemmoma or slow evolutive sarcoma and have justified a conservative latero facial approach of the neoplasm. The final diagnosis of ancient neurilemmoma was based on both light and electron microscopy morphology.

[Duct cysts of the parotid. Complications of dilated Stensen's duct].

The classification of parotid cysts is still uncertain and confusing, especially regarding true glandular cysts. In contrast, the pathogenesis of parotid duct cysts has generally been demonstrated by recognition of constitutional dysplastic dilatation and complicating stenotic phenomena.