DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2020.v08i05.012

Pages: 1231-1234

This was descriptive study done in Khartoum state -Sudan, to determine the incidental finding in salivary glands in adult Sudanese population using utrasonography, the sampling includes 254 patients came to area of the study in age ranged 18-53 years, (59.4%) of them were female, verbal ethical approval taken from each of them, then ultrasound scanning of salivary gland was performed, the data collected by data sheet including the study variables which are age, gender, size and incidental ultrasound finding then analysed by SPSS version 16, frequency and percentage are calculated then chi square test were performed to assess correlation between study variables, the study found that 2.8% of the patients had an incidental finding during ultrasound scan, most finding present is parotitis due to mumps (0.8%), followed by Sjo¨gren syndrome, sialolithiasis, LNs, lesion+ LNs and lesion (0.4%) for each of them respectively. The study concluded that ultrasound can detect and determined the incidental abnormalities on salivary gland and also differentiate between them.