Oral surgery : a text book of diseases of the mouth intended chiefly for the use of students of dentistry / by Edmund W. Roughton.

  • Roughton, Edmund W.
Date:
[between 1890 and 1899?]
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Credit: Oral surgery : a text book of diseases of the mouth intended chiefly for the use of students of dentistry / by Edmund W. Roughton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    frequently occurs and is accompanied by high temperature. As the pus forms, the swelling softens and the skin over it becomes red and glazed ; after a few days the abscess bursts, as a rule upon the face, but sometimes in the external audi- tory meatus. The process of disintegration may spread from the parotid to the surrounding parts leading to suppuration of the massetersand pterygoids, thrombosis of the adjacent veins and sometimes pyaemia. The facial nerve is often involved, causing paralysis of the muscles of expression. The occurrence of suppurative parotitis is always serious, and adds to the gravity of the prognosis of the affection it complicates. The treatment consists in early and free evacuation of pus, and the administration of stimulants. Tumours of the Parotid. , Tumours of the parotid are not uncommon, and several varieties are met with ; but there is one tumour so much more common than the rest, that it is known as the “ parotid tumour.” The Parotid> Tumour contains both connective tissue and epithelial elements. The connective tissue is partly fibrous, partly myxomatous, and partly sarcomatous. Nodules of hyaline carrtilage are often interspersed throughout the tumour. The sarcomatous elements vary in amount and in kind ; sometimes there are none, sometimes the cells are few and spindle-shaped, sometimes they are more numerous and oval or round in shape. The epithelial elements bear a more or less close resemblance to the normal glandular structure. Cysts are not uncommon,