sialectasis

Sialectasis (also termed sialectasia, or siadochiectasis){{cite web|title=Radiopedia|url=http://radiopaedia.org/articles/sialectasis}} is cystic dilation of the ducts of salivary glands.{{cite book|author1=Yousem DM|author2=Grossman RI|title=Neuroradiology: The Requisites|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ySSgBkWJ-wYC&pg=PA480|year=2010|publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences|isbn=978-0-323-04521-6|page=480}} It may be caused by salivary duct strictures or stones (sialolithiasis).{{cite web|title=Patient.UK|url=http://patient.info/doctor/salivary-gland-disorders}} It can also rarely be congenital.{{cite journal|last1=Miziara|first1=ID|last2=Campelo|first2=VE|title=Infantile recurrent parotitis: follow up study of five cases and literature review.|journal=Brazilian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology|date=2005|volume=71|issue=5|pages=570–5|doi=10.1016/s1808-8694(15)31259-3|pmid=16612516|doi-access=free|pmc=9441967}}