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TONSIL DISSECTOR, TONSIL-GRASPING FORCEPS, TONSIL HEMORRHAGE CLAMP [PDF]
Journal of the American Medical Association, 1912 One end of the dissector (Fig. 1) is a retractor for the anterior pillar while applying forceps, and while inspecting the cavity from which the tonsil was removed. The other end is for dissecting out the tonsil. The edge is neither dull nor sharp, but rather an edge that is produced by the use of a fairly rough oilstone, and will cut when given a quick
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Incidental histopathological diagnosis of tonsilar actinomycosis: A report of four cases
Nigerian Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2023 Actinomycosis of the tonsils is uncommon even though the causative organisms are normal commensal of the oropharyngeal tract that may colonise the tonsillar crypts with resultant infection in apparently healthy individuals.
Modupeola Omotara Samaila +3 more
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Primary Tuberculosis of Tonsils: A Case Report [PDF]
, 2012 Tuberculosis is one of the major causes of ill health and death worldwide. Isolated tuberculosis of tonsil in the absence of active pulmonary tuberculosis is a very rare clinical entity.
Pooja Prasad, Minakshi Bhardwaj
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Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, 2005 A 13 year old female patient presented to ENT OPD with chronic recurrent tonsillitis and underwent tonsillectomy. The histopathological examination revealed heterotopic cartilage in both the tonsils. The postoperative period was uneventful. The histopathologic finding of choristom of the tonsil is rare.
P C, Modayil +4 more
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Detection of neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates from tonsils and posterior oropharynx [PDF]
, 2015 We examined the factors influencing gonorrhea detection at the pharynx. One hundred men infected with Neisseria gonorrhoeae were swabbed from the tonsils and posterior oropharynx. N. gonorrhoeae was reisolated from the tonsils and posterior oropharynx in
Bissessor, M. +19 more
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, 2023 This book presents selected topics on the tonsils and adenoids and related problems, providing insight into recent advances in the field. The airway and food passageway through the pharynx are of critical importance in our daily lives and contribute to ...
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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
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THE TONSILS IN CHILDHOOD [PDF]
Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 1912 The tonsils have attracted many investigators, but the results of the investigations are unsatisfactory and often contradictory. Connected by many in a very direct way with local disease elsewhere as well as with systemic disturbances, it is especially necessary because of the incompleteness of our knowledge that we should have our attention directed ...
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Nasopharyngeal tonsils (adenoids) contain extrathymic corticothymocytes. [PDF]
, 2014 Adenoidal tissue (also known as nasopharyngeal tonsils) of 58% of humans in the pediatric age group contains immature T-lymphoid cells with the phenotype of thymocytes (TdT+, CD1abc+, cytoplasmic CD3+, coexpressing CD4 and CD8, lacking an Intraepithelial
Fabio Pagni +4 more
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Mucosal immunity in upper and lower respiratory tract to MERS-CoV
Frontiers in ImmunologyIntroductionMiddle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has emerged as a deadly pathogen with a mortality rate of up to 36.2%. MERS-CoV can cause severe respiratory tract disease and multiorgan failure.
Khalid J. Shrwani +17 more
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