[Application of ultrasonography in diagnosis and treatment of acute inflammation of soft tissues in maxillofacial region and neck].

We investigated the value of ultrasonography (USG) and ultrasound-guided aspirations in diagnosis and treatment of acute inflammation of soft tissues in maxillofacial region and neck. We performed 174 USG in 136 patients (73 with abscesses and phlegmons, 27 with acute lymphadenitis, 16 with inflamed cysts, 12 with parotitis, 3 with sialolithiasis and 5 with diseases, simulated acute inflammation). Ultrasound-guided aspirations performed in 35 patients.

[Peculiarities of diagnosis and treatment of patients with hyposialosis].

33 patients with complaints of hyposalivation (21 in a 33 with syaloadenopatya and 12 in a 33 with syalosis out of the acute stage of disease) were examined. Complex examination of the saliva glands, analysis of the haemokynes in the various mediums of organism and thyoles compounds in the blood plasma was carried out. Tendency to increase in contents of haemokynes in the mixed saliva and in the tissue samples (from low in the syaloadenopatya to expressed in the syalosis) was revealed.

[The composition and structure of salivary calculi (sialoliths)].

Composition and structure of more than 50 sialoliths were examined to optimize the treatment of sialolithiasis. Infrared spectroscopy, x-ray phase analysis, optic and electron microscopy were used in examinations. The concrements consist of organic and mineral substances, the former ones predominating.

[Comprehensive radiologic examination in the diagnosis of parotid salivary gland diseases].

Comprehensive x-ray, ultrasonic and radionuclide examinations of 131 patients with chronic sialadenitis (n = 50), sialosis (n = 59), sialolithiasis (n = 9), autoimmune disorders (n = 6), and bulky processes (n = 7) of the parotid salivary glands were carried out. The diagnostic potentialities of each method in every of these conditions were analyzed. No correlation between the structural and functional disorders of the parotid glands could be traced.