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Inflammation of the parotid glands
Parotitis is an inflammation of one or both parotid glands, the major salivary glands located on either side of the face, in humans. The parotid gland is the salivary gland most commonly affected by inflammation. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: ParotitisA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Common Characteristics and Clinical Management Recommendations for Juvenile Recurrent Parotitis: A 10‐Year Tertiary Center ExperienceInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Chronic punctate parotitisThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Juvenile Recurrent Parotitis: A New Method of Diagnosis and TreatmentCited 132 times
- Go sideways: SialadenitisA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Salivary gland diseaseA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun Inflammation of one or both parotid glands.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Juvenile Recurrent Parotitis: A New Method of Diagnosis and Treatment
Acute Bacterial Suppurative Parotitis: Microbiology and Management
Recurrent parotitis
Recurrent Parotitis and Sialectasis in Childhood: Clinical, Radiologic, Immunologic, Bacteriologic, and Histologic Study
Acute Suppurative Parotitis Caused by Pseudomonas pseudomallei in Children
Chronic recurrent parotitis: a closer look at its origin, diagnosis, and management
Management of chronic recurrent parotitis: Current therapy
Recurrent parotitis of childhood
🆕 Influential since 2022
Common Characteristics and Clinical Management Recommendations for Juvenile Recurrent Parotitis: A 10‐Year Tertiary Center Experience
Sialendoscopy approach in treating juvenile recurrent parotitis: A systematic review
Neonatal suppurative parotitis: Case reports and literature review
COVID-19-associated parotitis and sublingual gland sialadenitis
Unilateral Chronic Parotitis With 68Ga-DOTA-FAPI-04 PET/CT and 18F-FDG PET/CT Imaging in a Case of a Patient With Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Chronic punctate parotitisWilliam G. Hemenway · 1971
- 📕A study on the pathogenesis of recurrent parotitis in childhoodAkiyoshi Konno · 1979
De parotitideKarl Josef Huppertz · 1824
Parotitis after injury or disease of the abdomen or pelvisStephen Paget · 1887- 📕Erysipelas, Rose, Rothlauf, und ErysipeloidHermann Lenhartz · 1904
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