Improving imaging of the major salivary glands
The gold standard for the diagnosis of parenchymal sialadenitis are sialography and multislice computed tomographic sialography (MSCT-sialography). However, it is necessary to conduct the introduction of nonionic iodinated rentgencontrastnykh drugs, and these techniques bear a high radial load, which is highly undesirable for patients with pathology of the thyroid gland (TG). During ultrasound examination in the major salivary glands on the echograms is difficult is the interpretation of a rounded hypoechoic lesions, which could be regarded as cyst-like cavity or lymph nodes. With the purpose of increase of efficiency of diagnostics of parenchymatous parotitis in the article the comparative characteristic of the informative value of ultrasound study of large salivary glands at contrast-enhanced saline solution with MSCT-sialography. The survey included 35 patients with pathology of the thyroid, which were divided into two groups investigated: in the first control group consisted of 10 persons, II group consisted of 25 patients with chronic parenchymatous sialadenitis.