Abstract / Description of output
OBJECTIVES: To describe the presentation, diagnosis, cause, complications and outcome in 14 dogs that presented with a parotid sialocoele and that were treated by complete parotidectomy.
MATERIAL AND METHODS: Multi-institutional retrospective study.
RESULTS: Each dog presented with a non-painful, fluctuant, soft tissue mass over the lateral aspect of the face in the region of the parotid salivary gland. Diagnosis was made by sialoradiography (3/14), CT (3/14), ultrasound (11/14) and MRI (2/14). The cause of the sialocoele could be determined in 8 of 14 patients and included: foreign body (2/14), sialolithiasis (1/14), neoplasia (3/14), salivary gland lipomatosis (1/14) and trauma (1/14). Treatment incurred one anaesthetic complication (regurgitation) and seven postoperative surgical complications [self-limiting seroma formation (2/14), haemorrhage (1/14), wound dehiscence (1/14), abscessation 7 months postoperatively (1/14) and facial nerve paralysis (2/14)]. Sialocoele did not recur in any dog during a median follow-up time of 14 months.
CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Parotidectomy has been considered a technically challenging procedure but can have a good success rate with long-term resolution of the clinical symptoms. Intra- and postoperative complications are reasonably common.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 79-83 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Journal of Small Animal Practice |
Volume | 57 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 24 Dec 2015 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- Animals
- Dog Diseases/diagnostic imaging
- Dogs
- Female
- Male
- Parotid Diseases/complications
- Parotid Gland/diagnostic imaging
- Postoperative Complications/veterinary
- Saliva