Difficulties of diagnostics in emergency in a patient with acute bacterial sialadenitis
Acute bacterial sialadenitis is observed in common pathologies accompanied by food intake disruption leading to cachexy. Generally, detection of acute bacterial sialadenitis is not a challenge. But diagnosis of acute serous bacterial sialadenitis causes difficulties with differentiating it from exacerbation of chronic parenchymal and intersticial sialadenitis, especially at the early stages of these diseases, as well as from acute viral sialadenites, for example acute influenzal sialadenitis. We present a clinical case of a patient with acute serous sialadenitis who had the extended evaluation only after unsuccessful course of conventional conservative treatment to find out the main cause of the disease that led to delayed diagnosis and prolonged hospital stay.