[Surgical therapy of chronic parotitis]

A short survey of the therapeutical possibilities available in cases of chronic parotitis is followed by a discussion of the results achieved after surgical treatment. This discussion is based on the findings obtained in follow-up checks. The - very strict - indication for surgery was not made until all conservative measures had been exhausted and thus it involved only 2.4% of 380 surgical patients suffering from various diseases of the parotis gland. It was possible to achieve a sustained total absence of complaints in all cases, with partial or subtotal resection being sufficient in most instances. Although postoperatively partial loss of the N. facialis function occurred relatively frequently, permanent damage was not observed in any single case.