Abstract
We report a case of sialolithiasis arising in the sublingual gland. A 72-year-old woman was referred to our hospital because of tenderness in the oral floor on the right side. An enhanced CT revealed irregularly-enhanced signals in the sublingual gland and a calcified material at the junction of the duct and the gland. With a clinical diagnosis of sialolithiasis and sialoadenitis of the sublingual gland, resection of the sublingual gland was carried out by intraoral approach under general anesthesia. Grossly, a sialolith was observed at the junction of the duct and the gland. Histologically, there were chronic inflammatory infiltrates in the parenchyma of gland and deposits of small calcified materials in the interlobular ducts. The postoperative course has been uneventful for eight years and nine months.
