1. History and physical examination --;1. Introduction --;2. History --;3. Physical examination --;4. Further considerations --;2. Plain radiography and sialography --;1. Introduction --;2. Plain radiography --;3. Sialolithiasis --;4. Inflammatory disorders --;5. Sialadenosis --;6. Tumors and space-occupying lesions --;7. Miscellaneous disorders --;8. Conclusion --;References --;3. Computed tomography of the major salivary glands --;1. Introduction --;2. CT versus CT-sialography of the parotid and submandibular gland --;3. Technique --;4. CT-sialography --;5. CT anatomy --;6. CT appearance of salivary gland tumors --;References --;4. Magnetic resonance imaging of the parotid gland --;1. Introduction --;2. Some remarks on MRI --;3. Normal anatomy --;4. Pathology --;5. MRI in parotid disease --;6. Conclusions --;References --;5. Ultrasound in salivary gland disease --;1. Introduction --;2. Ultrasound imaging principles --;3. Ultrasound examination of the salivary glands --;4. Inflammatory disease --;5. Space-occupying lesions --;6. Diagnostic ultrasound in salivary gland disease --;7. Conclusion --;References --;6. Salivary gland scintigraphy with 99mTc-pertechnetate --;1. Introduction --;2. Scintigraphic method --;3. Normal images and time-activity curves --;4. Tumors --;5. Sialadenitis and sialolithiasis --;6. Sjögren's syndrome --;7. Sialadenosis --;8. Miscellaneous disorders --;9. Conclusion --;References --;7. Fine-needle aspiration cytology --;1. Introduction --;2. Technique of FNA --;3. Conditions for optimum FNA results --;4. Complications of FNA --;5. Reliability of FNA --;6. Interpretation --;7. FNA of salivary glands: cytological features --;8. Pitfalls in cytodiagnosis --;9. Conclusion --;References --;8. Histopathologic diagnosis of salivary gland disorders --;1. Introduction --;2. Histology --;3. Histopathology --;References --;9. Microbiology of salivary gland infections --;1. Introduction --;2. Overview of salivary gland infections --;3. Diagnosis of viral and bacterial infections of the salivary glands --;4. Conclusion --;References --;10. Sialometry and sialochemistry --;1. Introduction --;2. Salivary secretion --;3. The collection of saliva --;4. Sialometry --;5. Sialochemistry --;6. Blood chemistry --;7. Diagnostic aids to salivary gland disease --;8. Irradiation --;9. Sodium retention dysfunction syndrome --;10. Sialadenosis --;11. Salivary gland disease in terminal illness --;12. Tumors of the salivary glands --;13. The effects of drugs --;14. Conclusion --;References --;11. Concluding remarks and recommendations --;1. Introduction --;2. Major salivary glands --;3. Accessory salivary glands --;References --;Index of subjects.
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Even less attention has been given to the diagnostic methods. In the major teaching hospitals, residents still tend to consider sialography as a panacea for the majority of their diagnostic problems, whereas the infor- mation provided is actually rather restricted.