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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1903 Ablation of hypertrophied tonsils is a procedure which has become generally indorsed by the profession of medicine, though in earlier years its advocates were less numerous and many sturdy opponents contended that the proper course to pursue was to patiently await Nature's cure by absorption or, as most often worded, until the patient would outgrow the
Edwin Pynchon
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Brazilian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology, 2022 Objectives: Hypertrophic palatine tonsils play a role in the blockage of the upper airway, one of the known causes of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). Therefore, it is possible that there is an association between tonsil size and the success of pharyngeal ...
Silvia Matarredona-Quiles +4 more
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Correlation between Tonsil Shadow Area on Skull Lateral View and Tonsil Volume after Tonsillectomy [PDF]
Sleep Medicine Research, 2019 Background and Objective To begin with, an adenotonsillectomy is one of the most common operations in children who have been diagnosed with a condition of sleep-disordered breathing.
Ho Chan Kim +2 more
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Microbiology Spectrum, 2022 Pigs are the amplifying hosts of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV). Currently, the safe and effective live attenuated vaccine made of JEV strain SA14-14-2, which does not express NS1′, is widely used in humans and domestic animals to prevent JEV ...
Shengda Xie +7 more
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Correlations Between the Adenotonsillar Microbiome and Clinical Characteristics of Pediatric Patients With Snoring [PDF]
Clinical and Experimental Otorhinolaryngology, 2021 Objectives Few studies have reported combined analyses of the microbiome of the adenoids and tonsils in pediatric patients with snoring, and correlations of the adenotonsillar microbiome with clinical characteristics have not been evaluated to date.
Kyung Soo Kim, Hyun Jin Min
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Distinct microbial communities colonize tonsillar squamous cell carcinoma
OncoImmunology, 2021 Squamous cell carcinoma of the tonsil is one of the most frequent cancers of the oropharynx. The escalating rate of tonsil cancer during the last decades is associated with the increase of high risk-human papilloma virus (HR-HPV) infections.
Angelina De Martin +12 more
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A rare tonsillar metastasis of Merkel cell carcinoma: A case report
Clinical Case Reports, 2023 Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) metastasis to the tonsil is extremely rare with five published cases. We report the case of a patient with palatine tonsillar MCC metastasis, who presented without oropharyngeal symptoms, which contrast prior reported cases.
Precious C. Okonkwo +4 more
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Lymphangiomatous Polyp of Palatine Tonsil in A Child Presenting with Dysphagia and Dysarthria [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2015 Pedunculated lymphangiomatous polyps of the tonsil are rare benign lesions that have been described in literature using varied nomenclature. Majority of the cases have been reported in adults with varying clinical symptoms.
Yasmeen Khatib +4 more
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EBV Impact in Peripheral Macrophages’ Polarization Cytokines in Pediatric Patients
Viruses, 2023 Macrophages are exceptionally flexible cells. The presence of inflammatory cytokines such as IFN-γ and TNF-α results in an M1 (CD68) activation, while cytokines such as IL-10 or TGF-β induce the M2 (CD163) activation. Our aim was to study the behavior of
Agustina Moyano +6 more
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Intrathyroidal metastasis of tonsillar squamous cell carcinoma masquerading as a primary thyroid tumor [PDF]
Journal of Pathology and Translational Medicine, 2023 Intrathyroidal metastasis of tonsillar squamous cell carcinoma is rare. To date, only six cases have been reported in the literature. This case was unusual and presented with thyromegaly before the diagnosis of the primary tumor.
Jai-Hyang Go
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