tp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wjorl.20 95-8811/Copyright a 2017 Chinese d. This is an open access article un Tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy were developed hundreds of years ago, but they enjoyed wide popularity beginning in the early 20th century as a preventive treatment of Group A beta-hemolytic streptococcal (GABHS) pharyngotonsillitis and its feared complication rheumatic heart disease. During...

E.c.g. changes were compared in 152 children undergoing adenoidectomy of adenotonsillectomy (T + A) under halothane or enflurane anaesthesia. Junctional rhythm occurred in 4-16% of the children in adenoidectomy groups and in 11-33% in T + A groups. Bundle branch block occurred in 4% of the children anaesthetized with halothane, but not with enflurane and was particularly common in association w...

Edema is the chief factor in enlargement of tonsils of children with allergic disease. In the absence of infection tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy are contraindicated in the allergic child except when obstruction is present. Infection produces one of two distinct patterns when it influences allergic states, the pattern depending upon the nature of the infectious disease. Chronic infection of th...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To evaluate the postoperative course of children who underwent coblation T&A versus those who underwent coblation partial intracapsular tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy (PITA). STUDY DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. METHODS Records of children undergoing consecutive tonsillectomies from July 2009 to October 2012 were analyzed. All surgeries used a coblation device. Ou...

OBJECTIVE Adenoids with obstructive hypertrophy (AH) are considered to be one of the most ancient and common problems in Paediatrics. This study aimed at investigating the expression of CD 64 on monocytes in children who had to undergo adenoidectomy. METHODS Therefore, 66 children (24 females, 42 males, mean age 4.9 years), affected by AH and requiring adenoidectomy (54%) or adeno-tonsillecto...