Reducing the Tonsils

Kaposi's sarcoma of the tonsils.

Wright B. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-219714 Description A 19-year-old HIV-positive man was referred to the ENT (ear, nose and throat) team with dysphagia and intermittent hearing loss. He had a CD4 count of 70 cells/mm (9%) and was receiving antiretroviral treatment (Raltegravir and Truvada). He had known Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) skin lesions on the neck and arms, and a left-sided lev...

The Tonsils and Nasopharyngeal Epidemics.

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...

On the Function of the Tonsils

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...