[The intraoperative color lymphosialography of patients with parotid neoplasms].

Intraoperative color lymphosialography was carried out in 56 patients with benign tumors of the parotid salivary gland. A characteristic staining of the gland distinguishing it from the tumor was seen during surgery in all the cases. Peripheral branches of the facial nerve were well seen too. Employment of this technique has helped reduce by half the number of x-ray contrast examinations and resulted in a lower incidence (only 5 percent) of postoperative complications.