Correlation between Pain and Cone Beam CT Sialographic Finding in Chronic Inflammatory and Non-Inflammatory Conditions Fathy Nermien Ali Mohamed1, Amer Maha Eshak2,* 1Assistant Lecture, Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology Department Faculty of Dentistry, Minia University 2Head, Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology Department Faculty of Dentistry, Minia University *Corresponding Author: Maha Eshak Amer, Head of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology Department, Faculty of Dentistry, Minia University, Email: mahaeshaq2@yahoo.com
Online published on 23 December, 2019. Abstract Objective The aim of this study to evaluate the radiographic finding of CBCT sialography in patients suffering from pain in chronic inflammatory and non-inflammatory lesions of salivary gland. Patients and Method Twenty patients of both sexes and varying ages were selected complaining from pain in chronic inflammatory and non-inflammatory salivary gland lesions diagnosed by patient history, clinical examination and were undergone CBCT sialography scanning. Then all images were analyzed and scored, the radiographs had been evaluated by three radiologists independently of each other and the findings were correlated to pain as a clinical symptom. Results There was statistically significant difference between the presence of pain and the visualization of the main duct, while there is no statistically significant difference between all cases experienced different degree of pain and all parenchymal finding. Conclusion CBCT sialography can detect salivary glands with secondary inflammatory changes, moreover, the presence of pain as clinical symptoms is important in the evaluation of non-tumor lesions of salivary glands, it has no correlation with CBCT sialographic finding Top Keywords Pain, sialography, cone beam CT. Top |