OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To review malpractice cases involving complications following tonsillectomy. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective analysis at a tertiary medical center of jury verdict reports within the LexisNexis (Dayton, OH) database submitted after tonsillectomy malpractice cases. METHODS The LexisNexis MEGA Jury Verdicts and Settlements database was reviewed from 1984 through 2010 for compl...

background pain control in children is still a therapeutic dilemma. preschool patients are affected from undesirable effects of postoperative pain more than adults. tonsillectomy is associated with a high incidence of postoperative pain, not only complicating the recovery, but also delaying patients discharge. objectives despite employing different surgical and anesthetic strategies in post-ton...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the safety, morbidity, and efficacy of radiofrequency tissue volume reduction of tonsils using two different surgical techniques and to compare these two techniques with each other and with classic tonsillectomy. STUDY DESIGN A nonrandomized retrospective review of tonsil reductions was made between 2000 and 2002 using in vivo studies associated with tonsil reduction an...

To the Editor: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a chronic functional gastrointestinal disorder characterized by altered bowel function, abdominal discomfort, and bloating affecting 20% of individuals worldwide. The diagnosis is based on specific clinical criteria in the absence of a detectable organic cause. Interestingly, there is growing literature that patients with IBS have alterations in ...

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Tonsillectomy is the second most common childhood ambulatory surgical procedure, and in the United States alone it is perfor...

Most tonsillectomies are carried out by dissection. Only a small minority of otolaryngologistsstill routinely perform guillotine tonsillectomy. We carried out a prospective study on 86children undergoing tonsillectomy utilising a standard anaesthetic and analgesic regimen tocompare post-operative pain after dissection tonsillectomy and guillotine tonsillectomy using aPopper'...