We report a case of ischemia of the auricle and acute parotitis that developed following embolization for epistaxis. A 53-year-old male was previously conservatively treated for epistaxis with bilateral posterior nasal packing due to hypertension. As the bleeding, continued the patient underwent bilateral embolization of the internal maxillary arteries. The bleeding was controlled but the patie...

A-13-year-old girl presented with diabetic ketoacidosis with convincing clinical signs of parotitis (fever, drooling of saliva, inability to swallow with development of bilateral parotid swelling) and pancreatitis (fever, abdominal pain and vomiting), along with high serum amylase and positive mumps IgM titer. This suggests that mumps virus may have been the causative factor, probably as a resu...

INTRODUCTION The most common cause of parotid fistula is trauma, followed by malignancy, operative complications (parotidectomy or rhytidectomy) and infection. Acute suppurative parotitis can rarely produce parotid fistula. There are various treatment options available, however it is necessary to standardize the treatment according to the duration of history and the patient's general condition....

The testicle, the ovary, and the breast, as is well known, sometimes sympathise with the parotid gland in the course of mumps. Orchitis occurs as often as once in every sixty cases, and from this fact it may be held as beyond doubt that there is some nerve connexion between the parotid and the above-mentioned glands. The many recorded cases of parotitis subsequent to ovariotomy show that the sy...

A parotid fistula is a communication between the skin and a parotid duct or gland through which saliva is discharged. The most common cause of the parotid fistula is trauma. The major causes of parotid trauma in a civilian practice are penetrating injury to the parotid gland from an assault weapon or injury due to shattered glass after a motor vehicle accident. Acute suppurative parotitis can r...

A 12-year-old boy with epilepsy was referred for recurrent abdominal pain of 2 months duration and underwent endoscopy without conscious sedation. The patient strained a little during the procedure and antral gastritis was detected. After 2 minutes of having the procedure, he developed swelling of the right parotid gland (●" Fig.1). On examination, he had bilateral nontender, noncrepitant parot...