Musculoskeletal Key

Parotitis Ellen R. Wald Inflammation of the parotid gland may result from infectious or noninfectious causes. In children, most single attacks of parotitis result from viral infection of the gland….

Pharyngoconjunctival Fever Sarah S. Long Pharyngoconjunctival fever is an acute viral illness defined by the presence of fever, conjunctivitis, and pharyngitis. It occurs in epidemic and sporadic fashion. Soon after…

Herpangina Sarah S. Long Herpangina is a common, specific, acute febrile viral illness that usually occurs in epidemic form in young children in the summer and fall in temperate climates….

Cervical Lymphadenitis C. Mary Healy Carol J. Baker Cervical adenitis is inflammation of one or more lymph nodes of the neck. In children, the most common causes of cervical lymph…

Croup Ellen R. Wald The term croup describes a clinical syndrome characterized by a barking cough, hoarseness, and inspiratory stridor. This discussion of infectious nondiphtheritic croup is divided into four…

Life-Threatening Upper Airway Obstruction Fernando Stein Jorge M. Karam Children with unstable airways deserve the utmost attention because most cardiac arrests in children are the result of respiratory failure, frequently…

Uvulitis Ellen R. Wald Infections of the uvula have been reported infrequently in the medical literature. When the uvula is the most inflamed structure in the posterior pharynx of febrile…

Mastoiditis Mark W. Kline Inflammation of the mucoperiosteal lining of the mastoid air cells usually accompanies otitis media. Clinically evident suppurative infection, or mastoiditis, develops when inflammation causes progressive swelling…

Otitis Media Heidi Schwarzwald Mark W. Kline Otitis media is a general term denoting inflammation of the middle ear. Acute otitis media refers to suppurative middle-ear infection of relatively sudden…

Otitis Externa Mark W. Kline Under normal circumstances, the external auditory canal is protected from infection by a physical barrier of squamous epithelium and a chemical barrier provided by the…