Table III.
Results of procedures done from January 2009 and December 2013 at the Ear, Nose and Throat Unit of Sant'Orsola Hospital of Bologna. SM = submandibular; GA = general anesthesia; LA = local anaesthesia; CN = cranial nerve; RJP=recurrent juvenile parotitis; N/A = data not available.
| Procedures | Patients | Parotid/ SM |
Complications | SM resection |
GA/LA | Pathologies | Stone Removal |
Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 141 | 118 | 74/67 | 3 infections 2 basket wire breaking 1 transient paresis of VII CN 1 lingual paresthesia 1 distal stenosis |
3 of 130 glands treated |
40/101 | 62 Lithiasis 40 Diagnostic 26 Stenosis 6 RJP 6 Mucous plug 1 Polyp |
26 Basket 27 Combined technique 9 Not removed at first attempt |
102 Asymptomatic (72.3%) 37 Recurrence of symptoms (26.3%) 2 N/A data (1.4%) |