Surgery is necessary for sialolithiasis, parotid tumors, and cysts.
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Persons aged 30 60 and males are more likely to develop sialolithiasis.
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There is also a propensity to developing kidney stones, and eventually also gallstones and stones in the prostate and salivary glands ( sialolithiasis ).
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Salivary stones ( also called sialolithiasis, or salivary duct calculus ) are mainly made of calcium, but do not indicate any kind of calcium disorder.
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Sialolithiasis is common, accounting for about 50 % of all disease occurring in the major salivary glands and causing symptoms in about 0.45 % of the general population.
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Salivary calculi sometimes are associated with other salivary diseases, e . g . sialoliths occur in two thirds of cases of chronic sialadenitis, although obstructive sialadenitis is often a consequence of sialolithiasis.
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Sialolithiasis may also develop because of the presence of existing chronic infection of the glands, dehydration ( e . g . use of phenothiazines ), Sj�gren's syndrome and / or increased local levels of calcium, but in many instances the cause is idiopathic ( unknown ).
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