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Cureus
. 2022 Nov 3;14(11):e31054.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.31054. eCollection 2022 Nov.
COVID-19-Associated Parotitis in a 10-Week-Old Male
Robin Brehm[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Lakshmi Narayanam[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Grace Chon[SUP] 2 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
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.
Keywords: coronavirus disease 2019; covid-19; covid-19 retro; neonatal covid-19 infection; neonatal parotitis; sars-cov-2; sars-cov-2 in pediatric patients; sars-cov-2 parotitis; viral parotitis.
. 2022 Nov 3;14(11):e31054.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.31054. eCollection 2022 Nov.
COVID-19-Associated Parotitis in a 10-Week-Old Male
Robin Brehm[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Lakshmi Narayanam[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Grace Chon[SUP] 2 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 36475193
- PMCID: PMC9720032
- DOI: 10.7759/cureus.31054
Abstract
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.
Keywords: coronavirus disease 2019; covid-19; covid-19 retro; neonatal covid-19 infection; neonatal parotitis; sars-cov-2; sars-cov-2 in pediatric patients; sars-cov-2 parotitis; viral parotitis.