Methods
From the electronic patient files, we extracted following variables:
gender, age at first intervention, location of the symptomatic salivary
gland, indication for sialendoscopy, findings at sialendoscopy,
complications and outcome as assessed during follow-up consultations in
our department. Peroperatively, we used the LSD
classification14 (Table 1) to prospectively classify
the different salivary gland pathologies that were encountered. To
assess symptom control and gland-related quality of life at long-term
follow-up, we used the questionnaire designed by Gillespie et
al10.