[Congenital parotid fistula]. / Vrozhdennyi okoloushnyi svishch.

ABSTRACT

21 cases of congenital parotid fistula are reported. The patients' age ranged from 7 to 50 years. Dissection of the fistula under local anesthesia was made in 9 patients. A 7-year-old patient was operated under intravenous calipsol anesthesia. Four kinds of the fistula depending on its shape and size are described. Two of them cause no trouble, the other two manifest from early childhood with inflammation, recurrences with abscesses. In such cases the fistula should be radically removed.