Parotitis as a Complication of Lobar Pneumonia
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To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette. Sir,?In your issue for last June, under the above heading, a case of parotitis following pneumonia was recorded. I treated a similar case some months ago. The patient was a young female with lobar pneumonia. She developed a severe double parotitis during the course of the disease and local treatment was of no avail. The glands suppurated on both sides and had to be incised.?Yours,
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Parotitis as a Complication of Lobar Pneumonia
see a patient suffering from a typical attack of lobar pneumonia with pleurisy. The crisis occurred on the seventh day of illness. The next day?17th Feb., 1927?he noticed a swelling below the left ear, which on examination proved to be the left parotid gland acutely inflamed. The pneumonia had been right-sided, whereas it was the left parotid gland which was affected. Ichthyol with belladonna i...
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