Parotid abscess: A five-year review - Clinical presentation, diagnosis and management

Journal of Laryngology and Otology

Volumn 121, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 872-879

  Tan, V E S ^a   Goh, B S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA MEDICAL CENTER   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Abscess; Diabetes Mellitus; Facial Nerve; Parotid Gland; Parotitis

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; CLAVULANIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PAROTID GLAND ABSCESS; SEPTICEMIA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALAYSIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAROTID DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY;

EID: 34548456067     PISSN: 00222151     EISSN: 17485460     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022215106004166     Document Type: Article

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