Role of ultrasonography in the diagnosis of salivary gland lesion

ABSTRACT

Because of the close relation of salivary glands to the surface, sonography considered to be the most method of choice that can assess the different lesions of the salivary glands. This work is based on the sonogram performed on 25 patients, 3 patients with tumors, 5 patients with sialolithiasis, 12 patients with inflammatory diseases of the parotid and submandibular glands, 3 patients with autoimmune diseases and 2 cases were normal