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Complicated spontaneous pneumoparotid mimicking a neck mass in a child with Down’s syndrome

Spontaneous or self-induced pneumoparotid, which usually manifests as acute unilateral gland enlargement, is caused by insufflation of air from the oral cavity via Stensen’s duct. A 9-year-old patient, with known Down’s syndrome, presented with a progressively enlarging, painless, spontaneous, left...

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Autores principales: Gray, Sheree C., Pienaar, Jacobus A., Sofianos, Zelia, Varghese, Jacob
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AOSIS 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7433264/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32832121
http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajr.v24i1.1883