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COVID-19-Associated Parotitis in a 10-Week-Old Male
We describe a case of parotitis associated with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in a young male infant. His presenting symptom at the time of diagnosis of COVID-19 was unilateral facial swelling. He then developed upper respiratory infection symptoms and proceeded to recover over a period of abo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9720032/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36475193 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31054 |
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author | Brehm, Robin Narayanam, Lakshmi Chon, Grace |
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description | We describe a case of parotitis associated with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in a young male infant. His presenting symptom at the time of diagnosis of COVID-19 was unilateral facial swelling. He then developed upper respiratory infection symptoms and proceeded to recover over a period of about a month. Testing for other causes of parotitis was unrevealing. Other cases of COVID-19-associated parotitis have been presented in the literature, but this case is by far the youngest child noted, and is a useful reminder to pediatricians and general practitioners to consider COVID-19 as a cause of parotitis. Additionally, it sheds light on possible transmission and pathophysiology of COVID-19 in the salivary glands, as several other authors have noted. |
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spelling | pubmed-97200322022-12-05 COVID-19-Associated Parotitis in a 10-Week-Old Male Brehm, Robin Narayanam, Lakshmi Chon, Grace Cureus Pediatrics We describe a case of parotitis associated with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in a young male infant. His presenting symptom at the time of diagnosis of COVID-19 was unilateral facial swelling. He then developed upper respiratory infection symptoms and proceeded to recover over a period of about a month. Testing for other causes of parotitis was unrevealing. Other cases of COVID-19-associated parotitis have been presented in the literature, but this case is by far the youngest child noted, and is a useful reminder to pediatricians and general practitioners to consider COVID-19 as a cause of parotitis. Additionally, it sheds light on possible transmission and pathophysiology of COVID-19 in the salivary glands, as several other authors have noted. Cureus 2022-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9720032/ /pubmed/36475193 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31054 Text en Copyright © 2022, Brehm 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. |
spellingShingle | Pediatrics Brehm, Robin Narayanam, Lakshmi Chon, Grace COVID-19-Associated Parotitis in a 10-Week-Old Male |
title | COVID-19-Associated Parotitis in a 10-Week-Old Male |
title_full | COVID-19-Associated Parotitis in a 10-Week-Old Male |
title_fullStr | COVID-19-Associated Parotitis in a 10-Week-Old Male |
title_full_unstemmed | COVID-19-Associated Parotitis in a 10-Week-Old Male |
title_short | COVID-19-Associated Parotitis in a 10-Week-Old Male |
title_sort | covid-19-associated parotitis in a 10-week-old male |
topic | Pediatrics |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9720032/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36475193 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31054 |
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