title: Parotitis: clinical presentations and management.
abstract: Although mumps virus is the most common and, therefore, best known cause of parotitis, other causes are not infrequent and need to be distinguished from mumps. Knowledge of the various clinical presentations of parotitis and judicious use of a few ancillary tests will facilitate differential diagnosis.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D000368:Aged; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000150:complications; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004671:Encephalitis, Arbovirus / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008413:Mastitis / Q000209:etiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009107:Mumps / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid / Q000175:diagnosis; D009920:Orchitis / Q000209:etiology; D010309:Parotitis / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011859:Radiography; D012466:Salivary Gland Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis