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radioiodine-induced sialadenitis

Monday 23 January 2017

chronic radioactive iodine-induced sialadenitis; I131 sialadenitis

Synopsis

- Radioactive Iodine-Induced Sialadenitis
- xerostomia
- hyposalivation
- salivary gland dysfunction
- Salivary gland injury

Histopathology

- mild salivary lobular inflammation
- depletion of salivary acini
- salivary acinar atrophy
- salivary ductal dilatation
- attenuation of salivary ductal mucosa
- early squamous metaplasia of the salivary ducts
- vductal concretions
- early salivary periductal fibrosis

See also

- radiation therapy / radiotherapy

Links

- https://iowaheadneckprotocols.oto.uiowa.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=7275107

Open references

- Sialendoscopy for Patients with Radioiodine-Induced Sialadenitis and Xerostomia.
Bhayani MK, Acharya V, Kongkiatkamon S, Farah S, Roberts DB, Sterba J, Chambers MS, Lai SY.
Thyroid. 2015 Jul;25(7):834-8. doi : 10.1089/thy.2014.0572
PMID: 25860842 Free