a 16 year old woman with tangier disease in palatine tonsils is reported. she has recurrent sore throat. in physical examination the palatine tonsils are hypertrophied and has very yellowish points. the facial skin is yellowish but the skin of another areas of body is normal. after tonsillectomy the pathologist report tangier disease in palatine tonsils

Tonsillar carcinoma which is a not uncommon form of head-neck malignancy is reviewed.

We observed a subpopulation of human tonsillar lymphocytes with cytoplasmic inclusions that stained orthochromatically blue with Wright stain. These lymphocytes represented fewer than 2% of cells in suspensions of cells from most tonsils; however, suspensions of tonsillar cells from 4 to 18 studied patients contained more than 2% (2.8%--6.4%) lymphocytes with cytoplasmic inclusions. These cells...

Since human papillomavirus (HPV) was first linked to laryngeal/oral carcinomas in 1983, several studies have confirmed its causal role in a subgroup of upper aerodigestive tract tumours. Of the non-genital cancers, tonsillar carcinomas (TCs) have the strongest association with HPV. By the end of 2002, 432 TCs had been analysed for HPV DNA. Overall detection rate was 51%, with HPV-16 being the m...

The three-dimensional structure of capillary vessels in the human palatine tonsil using corrosion casting technique was investigated. The postcapillary venules and arterioles were distinguishable from the nuclear impressions on their walls. The configuration of vessels around cryptal micropores is similar to images obtained by a recently developed cryptscope. The palatine tonsil has no efferent...

M. setense is an emerging organism of the M. fortuitum group that must be added to the growing list of rapidly growing mycobacteria isolated from humans. The initial gram-positive rod appearance of M. setense may delay its accurate identifi cation. Determination of antimicrobial drug susceptibility needs to be conducted by the reference broth dilution method. Further reports are warranted to ch...

Spontaneous tonsillar hemorrhage from infectious causes is extremely rare and post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage, although also relatively rare, is an unavoidable complication of the procedure. Hemorrhage in association with tonsillitis or tonsillectomy is potentially dangerous and can be life threatening. We report here the presentation and management of a 42-yr-old man with severe spontaneous hemo...