Fatal Staphylococcal Septicaemia Following Removal of Tonsils and Adenoids

Tonsils and adenoids.

The bacteriology of acute tonsillitis and the normal flora of the throat in children is interesting and somewhat puzzling. Several studies (Box, Cleveland and Willard, 1961; Reilly et al, 1981; Toner et al, 1986) have shown that the culture of throat swabs taken from children with a history of acute tonsillitis does not differ, in terms of organisms cultured, from those taken from normal childr...

The Treatment of Tonsils and Adenoids

Sir,?In your issue of May, 1922, there appears on page 223 a list of suggestions made by the Council of the Laryngological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine regarding the treatment of children suffering from tonsils and adenoids. A large number of children receive treatment for throat affections at this hospital, and in the past they have been treated in the out-patients' department as a...

The Treatment of Tonsils and Adenoids

no value, and that actual harm might be done by operating, and enlarged tonsils and adenoids might be left alone or treated by means other than operation. You insinuate that I am in favour of inaction, of allowing the children slowly to become diseased and deaf?you then quote what you describe as an admirable picture postcard, with the object of popularising the operation, which you commend to ...

Mental Changes after Removing Tonsils and Adenoids

This paper presents the results of an attempt to measure the change in general mental alertness which followed the operation for diseased tonsils and adenoids. The comparisons made in this study involve the use of a control group with adenoids which did not undergo the operation. Only one other investigator has taken advantage of the fact that the best control group would consist of those suffe...

An Unusual Complication after Operation for Removal of Tonsils and Adenoids