sialadenitis/asthenia

Chronic recurrent parotitis can be disabling, and often requires surgery for its resolution. Twenty-one patients with chronic sialadenitis treated by subtotal parotidectomy were studied. Two patients developed transient and one significant postoperative recurrent parotitis, and two patients had

Objective: Sjögren's syndrome is a heterogeneous inflammatory disorder frequently involving peripheral nerves with a wide spectrum of sensory modalities and distribution patterns. The objective of this cross-sectional study was to determine characteristics of Sjögren's syndrome as a cause for

We present a retrospective series of 23 consecutive parotidectomies, over a 10-year period (1989-1999) for 22 patients with chronic sialadenitis unresponsive to conservative measures. There were 10 male and 12 female patients. Mean age was 52 years (range 12-72), and mean duration of symptoms 4.5

Contralateral upper extremity weakness following resection of a frontal tumor is not unusual to neurosurgeons. The differential diagnosis is broad and includes postoperative brachial plexopathy, which is usually secondary to malpositioning. We report the first known case of postoperative brachial

BACKGROUND The purpose of the present study was to compare and contrast the clinicopathological features and treatment outcome of chronic sialadenitis involving the parotid and submandibular glands, among patients who were treated by excision of the affected gland. METHODS In a series of 88 patients

OBJECTIVE To analyze the clinical outcome of patients treated surgically for chronic parotid sialadenitis. METHODS A retrospective cohort study of patients whose clinicopathologic information had been collected prospectively onto a dedicated head and neck database. METHODS Between 1987 and 2006, a

Chronic non-specific sialadenitis of the parotid gland is an insidious inflammatory disorder which is characterised by intermittent, often painful, swelling of the gland. The disease tends to progress and may lead to the formation of a fibrous mass. The purpose of this paper is to review our

A 68-year-old man was admitted because of weakness of the left leg, dysesthesiae of the extremities and bilateral lower extremity purpura. A neurological examination showed mononeuritis multiplex with laboratory evidence of hypocomplementemia, cryoglobulinemia and leukocytoclastic vasculitis in the

We report a 60-year-old man with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) accompanying systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and Sjögren syndrome (SS). He was admitted to our hospital because of progressive weakness and dysesthesia in the distal parts of the bilateral upper and lower

Polysystemic autoimmune diseases often cause orofacial and stomatognathic symptoms. Inflammation of the temporomandibular joint only rarely and slightly reduces the range of mouth opening (rheumatoid arthritis), which is much more restricted in systemic sclerosis due to fibrosis of perioral soft

BACKGROUND MELAS (mitochondrial myopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes) is one of the most common mitochondrial encephalomyopathies. METHODS We present four children with A3243G MELAS mtDNA mutation and give a summary of clinical MELAS symptoms reported in the literature. Serum lactate

BACKGROUND Reports of hypertrophic spinal pachymeningitis associated with human T-cell lymphotrophic virus-1 (HTLV-1) infection and Sjogren's syndrome in the English literature are still very rare. METHODS We hereby present a case of a 78-year-old female with a history of lower extremity weakness

Examine outcomes of transfacial gland-preserving removal of difficult parotid stones and compare the cost and operative time to traditional parotidectomy. Cost-effectiveness analysis and retrospective chart review. Patients who underwent transfacial removal of symptomatic parotid sialoliths at a

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the feasibility and outcome of a combined retroauricular and transoral approach for removing the submandibular gland. METHODS Thirteen patients underwent removal of benign submandibular gland lesions (6 sialoadenitis with sialolithiasis, 4 chronic sialoadenitis, and 3

The Sjögren's syndrome is a systemic autoimmune disorder characterized by chronic inflammation of the exocrine glands with extraglandular manifestations in up to 25% patients. Renal involvement occurs in 18.4-67% of cases, with tubulointerstitial nephritis being the most frequent pathology. We