Epidemic parotitis complicated by acute suppurative appendicitis; report of a case.

Abstract

A few cases of acute appendicitis following the onset of epidemic parotitis have been reported. 1 The majority appear to be well established cases of mumps in which acute appendicitis developed five to seven days after the onset of the initial disease. They are to be differentiated from the cases with postoperative parotitis. 2 The question is periodically raised whether acute appendicitis developing in cases of epidemic parotitis has more than a coincidental relationship. Reports 1 of five cases of mumps complicated by acute appendicitis have been encountered. In the more recent reports reference to four similar cases, 3 the first of which is reputed to have been described by Simonin in 1903, 3a has been made. Various writers have reviewed their cases of appendicitis following infectious disease. 4 This case is presented to emphasize a possible, if only a coincidental, complication of mumps. Today a patient with mumps is