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Cureus
January 2023
Emergency Medicine, Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, USA.
A 10-year-old female presented with atraumatic bilateral mandibular swelling. Through imaging and exam she was found to have bilateral pneumoparotid. This is a rare cause of facial swelling that is primarily discussed in otolaryngology literature and relatively unknown in emergency medicine.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Oral Maxillofac Surg
January 2018
Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan.
A 53-year-old man presented with the chief complaint of oral noises. No lesion could be observed in the oral cavity. Ultrasound detected several high-echogenicity areas inside the bilateral parotid ducts, and the initial stage of pneumoparotid was diagnosed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBr J Oral Maxillofac Surg
March 2015
Department of Radiology, Narayana Health, Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, Shaw Mazumdar Cancer Center Bangalore, Bommasandra, India. Electronic address:
Pneumoparotid is common in patients with lesions of the oral cavity who have diagnostic computed tomography (CT) with the "puffed cheek" technique. Although such observations are often noted, we could find few papers about the incidence in relation to oropharyngeal conditions. We present a retrospective series of 47/300 patients who developed pneumoparotid during multidetector CT examination of the oropharyngeal region to assess the incidence and any possible correlation with regional disease.
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March 2012
Department of ENT, Head and Neck Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, University of Antwerp, Edegem, Belgium.
Problems/objectives: Pneumoparotid is a rare condition in which air is insufflated through Stensen's duct into the parotid gland. This causes mostly painless swelling in the parotid region.
Case Report: We report on a 7-year old girl presenting with painless unilateral swelling of the left parotid region, present for one month.
Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg
March 2006
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Orlando, Florida, USA.
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