Key points:
- Chronic obstructive sialadenitis causes a marked loss in the quality
of life.
- Chronic obstructive sialadenitis and the results of sialendoscopy
should be able to be evaluated by an objective tool.
- Sialendoscopy, when possible, is currently the ideal treatment in
chronic obstructive sialadenitis and the first therapeutic
recommendation.
- At this time, no statistically validated quality of life questionnaire
applied to chronic obstructive sialadenitis has been described.
- The first statistically validated quality of life questionnaire
applied to the chronic obstructive sialadenitis and results of
sialendoscopy is presented.