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Parotitis: Parotid Gland Swelling Causes, Symptoms & Treatment
Parotitis is a term used to describe parotid gland swelling . Your parotid glands are salivary glands located between your jaw and ear. Parotitis causes include viral and bacterial infections, salivary gland stones and dental problems.
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Parotitis - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
Parotitis, or inflammation of the parotid glands, is the most common inflammatory condition affecting the major salivary glands.
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Parotitis: Practice Essentials, Background, Pathophysiology
Dry mouth, drooling, swelling, and pain are essentially the only symptoms caused by dysfunction of the salivary glands.
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parotitis
parotitis Path. (pærəʊˈtaɪtɪs) [irreg. for parotiditis, f. prec.: see -itis.] Inflammation of the parotid gland, or of neighbouring structures; usually constituting the disease called mumps. Hence parotitic (-ˈtɪtɪk) a., pertaining to or affected with parotitis.1822 Good Study Med. II. 337 In advanc...
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Parotitis - Wikipedia
Parotitis is an inflammation of one or both parotid glands, the major salivary glands located on either side of the face, in humans. The parotid gland is ...
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Parotitis: Care Instructions - MyHealth Alberta
Parotitis is a swelling of your parotid glands. These are salivary glands located between the ear and jaw. The most common cause is a virus.
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Parotitis - Kaiser Permanente
Parotitis is a swelling of your parotid glands. These are salivary glands located between the ear and jaw. Causes can include viral and bacterial infections.
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Suppurative parotitis in adults - UpToDate
INTRODUCTION. Acute infection of the parotid gland can be caused by a variety of bacteria and viruses. Acute bacterial suppurative parotitis ...
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Juvenile Recurrent Parotitis - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Parotitis is the swelling of one or both parotid glands, the salivary glands that are located in the cheek between the ear and jaw on each side of the head.
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How to differentiate between mumps and parotitis? - Vinmec
Parotitis (parotid salivary gland inflammation) and mumps have clinical symptoms in the salivary glands, most commonly in the parotids.
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Pneumoparotitis
Pneumoparotitis (also termed pneumosialadenitis wind parotitis, surgical mumps, or anaesthesia mumps), is a rare cause of parotid gland swelling which Prognosis
Recurrent pneumoparotitis may predispose to sialectasis, recurrent parotitis, and subcutaneous emphysema of the face and neck, and mediastinum
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sialectasis
sialectasis Path. (saɪəˈlɛktəsɪs) [f. sialo- + Gr. ἔκτασις dilatation.] Dilatation of the ducts of the salivary glands, usu. the parotids.1940 Brit. Jrnl. Surg. XXVII. 713 The term ‘sialectasis’ which has been used to describe the condition is not strictly correct etymologically, translating as ‘a s...
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Parotid gland
Clinical significance
Parotitis
Inflammation of one or both parotid glands is known as parotitis. The most common cause of parotitis is mumps. Apart from viral infection, other infections, such as bacterial, can cause parotitis (acute suppurative parotitis or chronic parotitis).
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Parotid duct
Clinical significance
Blockage, whether caused by salivary duct stones or external compression, may cause pain and swelling of the parotid gland (parotitis Additional images
See also
Parotid gland
Parotitis
References
Further reading
External links
Diagram at MSU
- Parotid duct injuries
Glands
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Mumps
Mumps is sometimes called "epidemic parotitis". Mumps meningitis can also occur up to one week before parotitis as well as in the absence of parotitis.
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