This may be symptomatic of some inflammatory condition in the vicinity, such as a pyogenic affection of the lower jaw--for example, that associated with a carious root or an unerupted wisdom tooth, or with parotitis or tonsillitis.
The post-operative form of parotitis is most frequently met with after laparotomy for such conditions as suppurative appendicitis, perforated gastric ulcer, ovarian cyst, and pyosalpinx.
The treatment of these non-suppurative forms of parotitis consists in relieving the symptoms.
Tuberculosis and actinomycosis may infrequently be characterized by the lodgment of their parasitic causes in the parotid glands, in which case parotitis may be a symptom of either of these diseases.
Parotitis sometimes arises from a blow or contusion severe enough to set up inflammation in the structure of the gland.
When parotitis complicates post-operative convalescence, it is almost entirely confined to septic cases: it may occur within two days of the operation or as late as the thirtieth day.
They came to the conclusion that this variety of parotitis originates in the ducts of the gland.
Septic parotitis is an unpleasant and painful complication of an abdominal operation, but it is rarely dangerous and has only had a fatal termination in very exceptional cases.
This septic parotitis is deceptive in the red and brawny appearance of the skin covering the swollen gland, and the misleading sense of fluctuation.
The Pathology and Prevention of Secondary Parotitis (with Literature).
This is undoubtedly true in some cases, but that it is far from being the rule is proved by the infrequency of parotitis as a secondary complication of catarrhal affections of the mucous membrane of the mouth.
This fever is separated from that of the parotitis by an interval of two or three days.
Bilateral symptomatic parotitis has naturally a graver prognosis than the unilateral form.
Occasionally, the parotitis disappears a variable time before the onset of the metastatic affection; then the interval is marked by grave symptoms of depression and cerebral disturbance, but there are no proofs of actual meningeal involvement.
The term parotitis is applied to a condition of painful enlargement of one or both parotid glands, inflammatory in nature, acute in its course, and usually subsiding by resolution, but sometimes ending in suppuration.
Parotitis with salivation sometimes occurs, likewise aphthous inflammations of the mouth.
Virchow regards all cases of parotitis as the result of an extension of a more or less malignant catarrh originally affecting the gland-ducts.
Mumps= Mumps is the common name for what is technically calledparotitis (or parotiditis).
Parotitis is an inflammation of the parotid glands.
And in the parotitis, or mumps, the breasts of women swell, when the tumor of the parotitis subsides.
