Parotid Gland Lithiasis in Stensen’s Duct. Case Report

Abstract

Salivary disease may result as a side effect from long term medications in chronic patients, dehydration, autoimmune diseases, ductal stenosis, smoking, trauma to salivary glands or due to systemic illness. Patients with sialoliths present a dysfunction related to salivary secretion. Salivary gland stones or calculi are the most common disease of the salivary glands most common in men aged between 30 to 60 years old. More than 85% of salivary sialoliths occur in the submandibular gland, 5–15% occur in the parotid gland and around 2% are in the sublingual and minor salivary glands. The article will present the case of an 84-year-old male patient with a parotid gland sialolithiasis.