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...

An abnormally large tonsil may be a sign of malignancy. We retrospectively analyzed the case files of 87 patients who had asymmetrically sized but otherwise normal tonsils and no risk factors for cancer to determine if asymmetry is associated with a higher incidence of malignancy. We found 2 cases (2.3%) of malignancy among these patients. One patient had high-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in th...

An ectopic tonsil is defined as tonsillar tissue that develops in areas outside of the four major tonsil groups: the palatine, lingual, pharyngeal, and tubal tonsils. The occurrence of tonsillar tissue in the oral cavity in ectopic locations, its prevalence, and its developmental mechanisms that belong to its formation remain unclear. In this report, we describe a rare case of bilateral symmetr...

Introduction: Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma is the largest subtype of non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas, and is characterized by frequent extranodal presentation. The most common extranodal locations of non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas are: stomach, bone, liver and testis. Simultaneous detection of multiple extranodal involvements during consultation is quite uncommon, and the majority of cases are characterized ...

Introduction. Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) radical tonsillectomy is an emerging minimally invasive surgical procedure for the treatment of cancer of the tonsil. The detailed surgical technique and claims for its reproducibility have been previously published. Case Presentation. We present a patient with a T2N2bM0 epidermoid carcinoma of the tonsil to illustrate step by step the surgical pro...