title: Acute bacterial parotitis in the frail elderly subject: a harbinger of death?
authors.affiliation: Geriatrics Department, Hôpital du Valais, Martigny, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Martial
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Coutaz
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D016330:Frail Elderly; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010309:Parotitis / Q000150:complications / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000401:mortality*; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies