ABSTRAK : HUBUNGAN UMUR & JENIS KELAMIN DENGAN EMBESARAN TONSIL PADA PENDERITA TONSILITIS KRONIS DI RSUD ABDUL MOELOEK PROV. LAMPUNGTAHUN 2021.Tonsilitis kronis merupakan penyakit yang paling sering terjadi di seluruh tenggorok Indonesia, pada anak-anak atau umur sekolah rentan menderita tonsillitis, tetapi ini dapat menyerang semua umur.Tujuan penelitian adalah Untuk mengetahui hubungan da...

The tonsil carcinoma with squamous cells seems to be one of the neoplastic lesions with a growing incidence worldwide, even in those geographical areas where the smoking incidence has been reduced. In the disease etiopathogenesis, more factors are incriminated. Among these, the most frequently mentioned are smoking, alcohol consumption and the infection with the Human Papilloma Virus. Among the...

Background: A clear differential diagnosis between oral and pharyngeal dysphagia remains an unsolved problem. Disorders of the oral cavity are frequently overlooked when dysphagia/ odybophagia complaints are assessed. Surface electromyographic (sEMG) studies were performed on randomly assigned patients with oral and pharyngeal pathology to evaluate their dysphagia complaints for the sake of dif...

OBJECTIVE To study the relationship between periodontal status and peritonsillar disease/recurrent tonsillitis. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING A total of 158 patients presenting over a 3-year period with peritonsillar abscess (PTA) confirmed by needle aspiration and a control group of 112 patients booked for elective tonsillectomy for recurrent tonsillitis (RT) were examined in terms of their perio...

UNLABELLED Hypertrophy and recurrent tonsillitis are common indications of tonsillectomy. However, the pathological reports are similar, regardless of clinical aspects. OBJECTIVE Search for histopathological changes that differentiate palatine tonsils operated because of hypertrophy vis-à-vis those operated because of recurrent tonsillitis. METHOD A prospective cross-sectional descriptive s...

INTRODUCTION The diagnostic test of swabbing the surface of the tonsil as a culture specimen for the determination of the organism responsible for the tonsil infection is still in practice, despite controversy. To date there has been no reports of establishing the reliability and validity of this common diagnostic test by appropriate statistical test of Likelihood ratios taking into considerati...

Tonsillectomy is one of the most frequently performed surgical operations in children. According to the Department of Health Hospital Episode Statistics (http://www.hesonline. nhs.uk), 25 000 tonsillectomies and 6500 adenoidectomies were performed in children under 15 years of age in England in 2003. The tonsils and adenoids are lymphoid tissues forming part of the Waldeyer’s ring encircling th...