Abstract
“IODINE MUMPS” has long been known to the medical profession as a rare, toxic reaction to iodine (1). Indeed iodine has been reported as an etiologic factor in some cases of Mikulicz's syndrome (3). An analogous phenomenon has been reported to occur in patients receiving thiouracil in the treatment of thyrotoxicosis (4). The present report deals with the detailed description of a patient who developed fever and a generalized swelling of the salivary and lacrimal glands while taking thiouracil. Following recovery, a sialogram showed evidence of structural damage to at least one of the salivary glands. CASE REPORT A. L., Lab. #25523, a white female aged 50, was admitted to the medical service of the Massachusetts General Hospital on February 23, 1945. She complained of a goiter, weight loss and nervousness. In 1942 she first noticed in her neck a lump which produced no symptoms. At about the same time she was treated in another hospital with x-ray and radium for epidermoid cancer of the cervix.
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