BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine whether the incidence of bilateral neck disease tonsillar cancer is rising. METHODS We reviewed tonsillar cancer incidence data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program of the National Cancer Institute. RESULTS The annual incidence of advanced neck disease (≥N2) with small primary tonsillar cancer is increasing...

The purpose of this article is to review the current knowledge on the status and significance of human papillomavirus (HPV) in tonsillar cancer. Current data in scientific reports and data from the Karolinska Hospital and Karolinska Institute, Sweden, demonstrate that approximately half of all tonsillar cancer is HPV-positive. Moreover, patients with HPV-positive cancer have a lower risk of rel...

BACKGROUND There is an ongoing controversy about the significance of tonsillar ectopia among patients with idiopathic scoliosis (IS). AIM To find out if tonsillar ectopia occurs more frequently among patients with IS and if it plays any etiological or prognostic role in IS. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective study. METHODS Retrospective analysis of 155 consecutive spine MRIs (79 patients with IS ...

BACKGROUND Actinomyces is a bacterial rod found in the normal oral flora. It can gain entry to the submucosa via trivial wounds and ultimately lead to slow growing lesions which may mimic cancerous lesions. METHODS AND RESULTS We present the case of an elderly, immunosuppressed woman who presented with a herald bleed from a tonsillar lesion. Despite initial operative arrest of the hemorrhage,...

Lymphoproliferative responses of tonsillar tissue lymphocytes and peripheral blood lymphocytes to phytohemagglutinin and specific bacterial product antigens were studied in children undergoing tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy. Tonsillar tissue lymphocytes responded to optimal concentrations of phytohemagglutinin. Varidase, and streptolysin-O in a manner similar to peripheral blood lymphocytes. H...

OBJECTIVE To determine the best method of identifying core tonsillar flora. STUDY DESIGN Quasi-experimental study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY ENT Department, Combined Military Hospital, Lahore, from September 2013 to October 2015. METHODOLOGY Eighty-seven patients of recurrent tonsillitis undergoing tonsillectomy were included. All the patients, after being anaesthetised, had surface swa...

Objective: To investigate histologically if a lack of protection of the deep lymphoid tissue in tonsillar crypts by an intact epithelial covering is an aetiological factor for tonsillitis. Method: A prospective histological study of the tonsillar crypt epithelium by immunostaining for cytokeratin in 34 consecutive patients undergoing tonsillectomy either for tonsillitis or tonsillar hypertrophy...

OBJECTIVE The first aim of this study was to compare the microbiota of different locations (pus, tonsillar fossa, blood) in peritonsillar abscess (PTA) patients in order to optimize the sampling scheme. The second aim was to estimate the occurrence of tonsillitis episodes and macroscopic oropharyngeal signs characteristic of recurrent tonsillitis in PTA patients. METHODS The study group consi...

abstract meningeal melanocytoma is a primary melanocytic neoplasm with certain mr and immunohistochemical characteristics worthy to note. in a 38-year-old man with a complaint of headache for a couple of years and recently added nausea, vomiting, diplopia, progressive visual blurring and hearing loss, magnetic resonance imaging (mri) was remarkable for t1 shortening of leptomeninges and certain...

OBJECTIVE To determine if slight descent of the cerebellar tonsils (< 5 mm below the foramen magnum; tonsillar ectopia) may cause surgically treatable symptomatology. METHODS A consecutive series of nine symptomatic patients with tonsillar ectopia seen between December 1990 and March 1993 are reported on. The same number of age and sex matched controls were selected at random from outpatients...