Operations on the tonsils and adenoids are among the most commonly performed of all operations but present a wide range of problems when attempts are made to evaluate the results. This article reviews the findings of the major evaluative studies and discusses the general difficulties that confront them, particularly those that arise from failure to take into account the extensive web of social ...

The MR imaging appearances in three cases of nasopharyngeal tuberculosis are reported, and the findings are combined with three additional cases from a review of the literature. Two patterns of nasopharyngeal tuberculosis were identified. The first pattern is a discrete polypoid mass in the adenoids, and the second pattern is a more diffuse soft-tissue thickening of one or two of the walls of t...

is not present at other times. The next chapter on routine examination, clinical history and physiognomical diagnosis is excellent. The latter is illustrated by a series of capital plates showing the fades of pleuro-pneumonia, meningitis, adenoids, diarrhoea, syphilis, &c. Chapters IV to XI deal with the clinical examination of the various regions of the body. The physiological and anatomical c...

was marked, and gave the impression of a large vessel. In the three boys' cases?aged respectively six, ten and eleven years? nasal obstruction, with enlarged tonsils and adenoids, existed. In one of the boys the pulsation was bilateral and very marked, communicating a heaving impulse to the left tonsil, which was hypertrophied. Connal reminds us that most observers have ascribed the pulsation t...

Pediatric obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is not always resolved or improved with adenotonsillectomy. Persistent or complex cases of pediatric OSA may be due to sites of obstruction in the airway other than the tonsils and adenoids. Identifying these areas in the past has been problematic, and therefore, therapy for OSA in children who have failed adenotonsillectomy has often been unsatisfactory....

This article has reviewed studies that document a relationship between loss of smell function and disturbances in nasal airflow function. In some cases (for example, hypertrophied adenoids and nasal sinus disease), medical or surgical intervention appears to be useful in restoring some, if not all, of the smell loss associated with the disorder. In other cases (for example, septoplasty), empiri...

Although small children with large inflamed nasopharyngeal lymphoid masses have been part of human ecology since the move east of Eden, the syndrome of cor pulmonale consequent to upper airway obstruction was not described until 1965 (Menashe, Farrehi, and Miller, 1965; Cox et al., 1965). These and subsequent reports (Noonan, 1965; Luke et al., 1966) defined the clinical syndrome of noisy, ster...

INTRODUCTION There is an ongoing debate about the existence and effects of Helicobacter pylori (Hp) in adenotonsillar tissue. OBJECTIVE A clinical study was conducted to assess the existence of Hp in the adenoid and/or adenotonsillar tissues, which were surgically excised due to chronic adenotonsillitis. METHODS Phosphoglucosamine mutase gene for the detection of Hp and cytotoxin-associated...