PRACTICA OTO-RHINO-LARYNGOLOGICA

Vol. 100  No. 2  February  2007

Submandibular Salivary Calculus of Three 
Children under 10 years old

Yukiko Mochizuki, Takayuki Mochizuki, Ritsuko Yoneda and Hajime Hirose
(Yamato Tokushukai Hospital)
Mamoru Tsukuda
(Yokohama City University School of Medicine)

　Sialolithiasis is rare in children. In this paper, 3 pediatric cases (8, 9 and 10 years-old, respectively) of sialolithiasis observed in the submandibular gland are reported. In each case, a single calculus of less than 5 mm in diameter was removed through an intraoral incision. Sialolithiasis in children is easily diagnosed because it is usually found in the duct, even though X-ray examination fails to indicate it.


Key words :children, sialolithiasis

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