[Personal experience with sialography]

The author emphasizes the importance of sialography in the diagnosis of diseases of the salivary glands. By using an intravenous polyethylene cannula it is possible to combine functional examination of the salivary glands (sialometry and sialochemistry) with X-ray examination after filling the glands with contrast substance. In a group of 34 patients sialography contributed to a correct diagnosis in 26 patients, i.e. 76.5%. False positive results were recorded in 1 case (2.9%), false negative results in three (8.8%). From a total of eight tumours of the salivary glands the examination in two cases (25%) did not lead to a correct diagnosis. In 16 instances (47%) the conclusion of the sialographic examination was compared with results of the histological and cytological examination.