Table 1.

Type of parotid pathology with regard to: patient’s age, the duration and intensity of complaints, ultrasound images and the primary outcome variable: elastography values (p value presented only for characteristics for which statistical tests were performed).

Diagnosis/number of patients	pSS/20	Stensen’s duct stenosis/15	Sialolithiasis/33	Chronic inflammation/10	All/78	p
Age (years)
Mean	46	49	47	42	46
Median	48	55	49	48	49
Std. dev.	17	13	16	15
Duration of complaints (months)
Mean	18	14	15	13	15
Median	24	12	12	9	12
Std. dev.	8	9	9	10
Intensity of complaints (No. of patients)
Mild	8	5	4	7	24
Moderate	6	7	12	3	28
Strong	6	3	17	0	26
Ultrasound picture (No. of patients)
Hypoechoic areas	14 (70%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	14 (18%)
Normoechogenic	6 (30%)	13 (86.7%)	21 (63.6%)	10 (100%)	50 (64%)
Hyperechogenic	0 (0%)	2 (13.3%)	12 (36.4%)	0 (0%)	14 (18%)
Elasticity values (kPa)
Mean	111	63	82	48	77
Median	106	60	66	21	62	0.05
Std. dev.	60	40	64	50	59