منابع مشابه
Spontaneus tonsillar hemorrhage.
Spontaneous tonsillar hemorrhage is a rare event; most of these cases have been the result of infectious tonsillitis.1 There are reported cases of spontaneous tonsillar hemorrhage in medical literature associated with bacterial infection, measles virus infection, infectious mononucleosis, peritonsillar, parapharyngeal and retropharyngeal abscesses and, less frequently, vascular malformation, an...
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Spontaneous tonsillar hemorrhage from infectious causes is extremely rare and post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage, although also relatively rare, is an unavoidable complication of the procedure. Hemorrhage in association with tonsillitis or tonsillectomy is potentially dangerous and can be life threatening. We report here the presentation and management of a 42-yr-old man with severe spontaneous hemo...
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INTRODUCTION Spontaneous tonsillar hemorrhage is defined as continuous bleeding for more than one hour, or more than 250mL of blood loss regardless of the duration of bleeding. It is an often under-diagnosed and under-reported complication of acute or chronic tonsillitis, with controversial management. We suggest that an emergency tonsillectomy should be performed as first-line treatment for th...
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A 16 year old women with Tangier disease in palatine tonsils is reported. She has recurrent sore throat. In physical examination the palatine tonsils are hypertrophied and has very yellowish points. The facial skin is yellowish the skin of another areas of body is normal. After tonsillectomy the pathologist report Tangier disease in palatine tonsils.
متن کاملSymptomatic tonsillar ectopia.
OBJECTIVE To determine if slight descent of the cerebellar tonsils (< 5 mm below the foramen magnum; tonsillar ectopia) may cause surgically treatable symptomatology. METHODS A consecutive series of nine symptomatic patients with tonsillar ectopia seen between December 1990 and March 1993 are reported on. The same number of age and sex matched controls were selected at random from outpatients...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Brazilian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1808-8694
DOI: 10.1016/s1808-8694(15)31082-x