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An Interesting Cause of Acute Parotid Swelling

CAPT RICHARD N. RUPP, MC

Arch Otolaryngol. 1963;77(6):665-668.

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Reflux of air into the parotid gland due to increasing pressure in the mouth is a rare cause of acute parotid swelling. Many puzzling problems of acute swellings of the parotid gland are never solved. Those swellings which become chronic and are evident on only one side are usually subjected to surgical exploration, but often the pathologist can offer only "chronic inflammation" as a cause. This relieves the patient of his lump, but the physician is still left with his mystery.

When a patient has an acute parotid swelling, the etiology can usually be traced to infection, obstruction, or a combination of both. Several other interesting causes of this symptom have been described in the literature. Disease in the many other tissues in and around the parotid must be considered. Even the presence of a foreign body in these tissues may be responsible.¹ It has been observed that on . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
USA

Otolaryngology Service, Department of Surgery, Walter Reed General Hospital, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington 12, DC.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Nov 30, 1962.

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