Case Report

Wharton’s Duct Sialolith of Unusual Size: A Case Report with a Review of the Literature

Table 1

Unusually sized sialoliths reported in literature.

StudyNumber of casesAgeGlandLocationSize

1Meyers, 1942 [17]150SMDuct50
2Mustard, 1945 [18]142SMDuct56
3Allen, 1956 [19]149SMDuct35
4Cavina and Santoli, 1965 [20]159SMDuct70+
5Cavina and Santoli, 1965 [20]153SMBoth60
6Hoggins, 1968 [21]152SMParen50
7Rust and Messerly, 1969 [22]166PDuct51
8Rust and Messerly, 1969 [22]158NRParen35
9 Raksin et al., 1975 [23]152SMDuct55
10 Isacsson and Persson, 1982 [24]148SMDuct36
11Tinsely, 1989 [25]148SMParen50
12Hubar et al., 1990 [26] 165SMDuct52
13Akin and Esmer, 1991 [27]145SMParen45
14Paul and Chauhan, 1995 [28]145SMDuct46
15Bodner, 2002 [29]150SMDuct50
16 Ledesma-Montes et al., 2007 [7]134SMDuct36
17 Gonçalves et al., 2002 [30] 152SMDuct22
18 Rai and Burman, 2009 [31]160SMDuct72
19 Miyashita et al., 2013 [32] 158PDuct15
20Yu et al., 2013 [5]915–78SM and PDuct16–29
21Huang et al., 2009 [9]157SMDuct40
22This case136SMDuct20

SM, submandibular gland; P, parotid gland; Paren, parenchymal; NR, not reported.