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EMANUEL APPELBAUM, M.D.; JEROME KOHN, M.D.; RUTH E. STEINMAN, M.D.; MARTIN A. SHEARN, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1952;90(2):217-223.

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THE OCCURRENCE of joint involvement during the course of epidemic parotitis has seldom been referred to in the medical literature. Several authors¹ merely mention arthritis among the complications of mumps. However, the subject is well discussed in a textbook by Jochmann,² and it is also commented on briefly in single case reports by Wilson³ and Magida.⁴ The present paper is based on our recent experience with four cases of mumps complicated by arthritis.

REPORT OF CASES

Case 1.

—L. R., a man aged 28, was admitted to the Willard Parker Hospital on Feb. 18, 1951, with a two-day history of swelling over the parotid glands and of abdominal pain and painful testicular swelling for one day. His past history was not remarkable.

Examination revealed a well-developed man who appeared uncomfortable because of the testicular pain. The temperature was 103.4 F., the pulse rate, 90, and the respiration rate, 20 per . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Department of Medicine, The Post-Graduate Medical School of New York University, the Fourth Medical (New York University) Division, Bellevue Hospital, and the Willard Parker Hospital.

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