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Epidural Tube: A Useful Device in Sialendoscopy Operations
Jin Li1, Wei Fang2, Ju-feng Chen3
1Resident, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University; Stomatology and Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine, Ministry of Education, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China; Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The First People's Hospital of Foshan, Foshan, Guangdong, China.
Abstract:
Salivary endoscopy, which was first described in 1991, is a safe technique with few complications. The sialendoscopy operation has been developed and successfully offered as a minimally invasive and gland-preserving approach for the treatment of chronic obstructive sialadenitis. For many surgeons, entering the duct lumen of the salivary gland is the most difficult and time-consuming step of the sialendoscopy operation. This report introduces a timesaving and straightforward method for entering the duct lumen using an epidural tube, which is a plastic tube with a blunt tip.
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