Utility of Point-of-Care Ultrasound for the Rapid Evaluation of Acute Sialadenitis: A Case Report

Acute suppurative sialadenitis is a bacterial infection of the salivary glands which leads to a painful, tender, and swollen salivary gland. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is a limited ultrasound performed by the provider to answer a specific clinical question. We present a case describing the eff...

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Autores principales: Kramer, Jeffrey A, Pourmirzaie, Roxanna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
Materias:
Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9182128/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35698686
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.24881
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description Acute suppurative sialadenitis is a bacterial infection of the salivary glands which leads to a painful, tender, and swollen salivary gland. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is a limited ultrasound performed by the provider to answer a specific clinical question. We present a case describing the efficient utilization of POCUS for the rapid diagnosis of acute suppurative sialadenitis in the Emergency Department.
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spelling pubmed-91821282022-06-12 Utility of Point-of-Care Ultrasound for the Rapid Evaluation of Acute Sialadenitis: A Case Report Kramer, Jeffrey A Pourmirzaie, Roxanna Cureus Emergency Medicine Acute suppurative sialadenitis is a bacterial infection of the salivary glands which leads to a painful, tender, and swollen salivary gland. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is a limited ultrasound performed by the provider to answer a specific clinical question. We present a case describing the efficient utilization of POCUS for the rapid diagnosis of acute suppurative sialadenitis in the Emergency Department. Cureus 2022-05-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9182128/ /pubmed/35698686 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.24881 Text en Copyright © 2022, Kramer et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Utility of Point-of-Care Ultrasound for the Rapid Evaluation of Acute Sialadenitis: A Case Report
title Utility of Point-of-Care Ultrasound for the Rapid Evaluation of Acute Sialadenitis: A Case Report
title_full Utility of Point-of-Care Ultrasound for the Rapid Evaluation of Acute Sialadenitis: A Case Report
title_fullStr Utility of Point-of-Care Ultrasound for the Rapid Evaluation of Acute Sialadenitis: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Utility of Point-of-Care Ultrasound for the Rapid Evaluation of Acute Sialadenitis: A Case Report
title_short Utility of Point-of-Care Ultrasound for the Rapid Evaluation of Acute Sialadenitis: A Case Report
title_sort utility of point-of-care ultrasound for the rapid evaluation of acute sialadenitis: a case report
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9182128/
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