Tonsils and Naso-Pharyngeal Sepsis

Post-Anginal Sepsis: (Sepsis of Oro-Naso-Pharyngeal Origin).

Meningococcal disease in New South Wales, 1991-2002.

Meningococcal disease is caused by invasive infection with the bacteria Neisseria meningitidis. Humans are the only natural reservoir for N. meningitidis, 5–10 per cent of whom have naso-pharangeal colonisation of the bacteria at any given time. The bacteria are transmitted between people by secretions from the naso-pharynx. Disease occurs in rare instances when a virulent strain of the bacteri...

Naso-Pharyngeal Fibroma

W. McC., age 17 years. This patient attended E.N.T. Extern and was admitted to the Royal Victoria Hospital on the 16th September, 1949. He complained of nasal obstruction for one year which was noticed first on the right side and later on the left. Four months before admission he had a severe epistaxis, during which he lost a considerable amount of blood. He was treated six months previously fo...

Some Tips about Tonsils and Adenoid Tonsil

This is an artic.:le about the pharyngeal lymphoid tissue. so called waldyer's ring. I have tride to give a rather clear discription of Its functi<"m, especially pointing to Its role in protecting the body against the infections by promoting the antibodv production and lymphocite formation.  In the view of these functions a clear cut indi­cations and contraindications of adenotonsillectomy has...

Congenital pharyngeal teratoma associated with malposed palatine teeth (A case report)

Pharyngeal teratomas are rare. We present a mature solid teratoma (so called “hairypolyp”) involving naso- and oro- pharynx in a female infant who presented with a gradually enlarging mass at the roof of the mouth since birth. The pharyngeal mass was protruding into the mouth through a palatine defect pr...