INDIAN PEDIATRICS 1009 VOLUME 43__NOVEMBER 17, 2006 Suppurative salivary gland diseases are rare in neonates. Only 22 cases of neonatal suppurative parotitis are described in the English literature in the last 35 years(1). During a 9-year study by Sabatino, et al., five cases of neonatal suppurative parotitis were detected in 3624 hospital admissions. The relative risk of developing neonatal su...

Acute suppurative parotitis and parotid gland abscess are infrequently seen in children. Ductal ectasis, primary parenchymal involvement or from a suppurative infection of the lymph nodes cause suppurative changes and leads to abcess formation. Various bacteria have been reported to be involved in the bacterial parotitis and abscesses; Staphylococcus aureus plays a major role both in adults, an...

The parotid is the salivary gland most affected by inflammatory process. The authors reviewed the records of 36 patients with acute suppurative parotitis admitted between July 1996 and June 2002. All patients had unilateral swelling of the cheek that extended to the angle of the jaw; 23 had fever (64%) and 6 diabetes (17%). Even though Staphylococcus aureus is the usual pathogen in acute suppur...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged in China at the end of and spread worldwide. A sixty-three-year-old female patient was admitted to hospital six days after she tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 with complaints cough, shortness breath, myalgia. After seven days, both parotid gland sites developed swelling, tenderness, pain. The ultrasonography revealed acute parotitis bilaterally. Viral ...

We report an adolescent with recurrent bilateral parotitis with pneumoparotitis and subcutaneous emphysema due to self pneumoinsufflation by a Valsalva like maneuver. Investigations for recurrent parotitis did not yield any clue. His la belle indifference, prolonged school absence and the presence of sibling rivalry helped us identify the psychological cause.

Painless swelling of the parotid salivary gland was observed in a patient presenting with secondary syphilis. This case is of special interest to venereologists and surgeons as parotitis associated with syphilis may be mistaken for common tumours of the parotid glands. A diagnosis of syphilitic parotitis should be considered in patients presenting with swollen parotid salivary glands in countri...

INDIAN PEDIATRICS 958 VOLUME 42__SEPTEMBER 17, 2005 Recurrent parotitis, also known as juvenile recurrent parotitis is defined as recurrent parotid inflammation, generally associated with non-obstructive sialectasis of the parotid gland(1). The etiology is not clear and in most cases, symptoms resolve spontaneously after puberty. A 7-year-old boy is presented here who had eight episodes of recu...

discussion pcr or enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (elisa) on serum or cerebrospinal fluid would be the inevitable basis for accurate diagnosis in such cases. case presentation we reviewed three patients diagnosed with aseptic meningitis due to acute non-mumps associated parotitis based on clinical and laboratory findings. while there are many similarities between the clinical characteristics ...

We report the case of a 13-month-old boy who developed right side parotitis as a first symptom of Kawasaki disease (KD). The data presented herein suggest that physicians should be aware that nonsuppurative parotitis is a possible manifestation of KD.

BACKGROUND Several adverse events following immunization (AEFI) have been attributed to immunization with live attenuated measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccines. The MMR vaccine was introduced into the routine infant immunization schedule in 2003, followed by a second dose of vaccine at school-entry for children 4 to 6 years of age. The objective of this study was to characterize adverse re...