This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (17)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Twenty-Eight Cases at a County Hospital

R. G. CARLSON, M.D.; W. W. GLAS, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1963;86(4):659-663.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Brodie in 1834 described acute suppurative parotitis and distinguished it from mumps. Robinson in 1955 called this a vanishing disease.² Krippaehne in 1962 reviewed 161 cases over a period of 20 years and found the disease more prominent again.³ This paper confirms Krippaehne's findings in acute suppurative parotitis. Namely, the disease is becoming more frequent in older aged persons with multiple illnesses; the mortality is high but not hopeless.

Twenty-eight patients with acute suppurative parotitis were treated at Wayne County General Hospital between January, 1958, and January, 1962. Sixty-four per cent of the parotid glands were improved at the time of discharge or death from other causes.

Age of Patient

The ages of patients are given in Table 1. Seventy-five percent of the patients are 70 years or older.

Infections elsewhere were present in 11(35%) of the cases. Only two (6%) of the cases had no associated illness. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
ELOISE, MICH.

From the Department of Surgery, Wayne County General Hosnital.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Dec. 16, 1962.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?