Sonographic appearances of salivary gland pathologies: A review
Journal Title: Journal of Oral Medicine, Oral Surgery, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 4
Abstract
Salivary glands are affected in a wide array of disorders and numerous imaging modalities are available for their diagnosis like conventional radiography sialography ultrasonography nuclear medicine MRI and computed tomography The visualization of the head neck region using ultrasonography in imaging techniques is catching up because of it noninvasive and nonionizing modalities Thus it can be considered an advanced imaging option for the evaluation of salivary glands This article focuses on the sonographic appearances of the various salivary gland pathologiesKeywords Ultrasonography Sonography Doppler ultrasound Salivary glands
Authors and Affiliations
Vanaja Reddy, Sweety Lalawat, Naveen Reddy Banda
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