ipsilateral absence of tonsil and microtia with ectopic salivary gland was reported by Sinha & Singh in 1978.This patient presented with left external ear deformity with conductive hearing loss His oropharyngeal examination found ipsilateral absence of tonsil and ectopic salivary gland in the posterior part of the tongue. In 1985 Grewal, Hiranandini and Kalgutkar reported 4 cases of congenital ...

background: tonsilloliths are calcified concretions that develop in tonsillar crypts. they are usually small and asymptomatic, so they are found accidentally during routine dental radiogrphy procedure. large tonsilloliths can occur with clinical signs and symptoms. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and patterns of palatine and adenoid tonsilloliths in cone‑beam computed t...

OBJECTIVE We report a series of patients treated for carcinoma of the tonsil who either presented with bilateral carcinomas or later developed a second primary carcinoma of the contralateral tonsil. This report raises awareness of this occurrence. STUDY DESIGN Case series. METHODS Four cases have been identified of either concomitant or subsequent carcinoma of the contralateral tonsil inpat...

Abstract Regulating B cell death is essential for generating antibodies and maintaining immune tolerance. cells can die by apoptosis, we report that human tonsil cells, but not peripheral blood also NETosis. This density-dependent, characterized the loss of nuclear membrane integrity, release reactive oxygen species, chromatin decondensation. Tonsil secrete high levels TNF, inhibiting TNF preve...

Tonsil motion was measured with cine MR imaging in patients clinically suspected of having Chiari I malformation. Cardiac-gated sagittal 2D fast imaging employing steady-state acquisition (2D FIESTA) was performed in 11 patients with a Chiari I malformation and in 6 subjects without tonsil ectopia. Tonsil motion was measured through the cardiac cycle with a pixel-shift program designed for that...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine whether risks of impaired cognitive function could be predicted for children or groups of children with adenotonsillar hypertrophy who were suspected of having obstructive sleep-disordered breathing, from historical and polysomnographic variables used separately or in combination. METHODS We studied 114 consecutive 6- to 12-year-old childre...

Although it is known that inflammatory processes elevate the risk of cancer, to date the association between chronic tonsillitis and tonsil cancer remains unknown. This study aimed to evaluate the association of chronic tonsillitis with tonsil cancer based on a population-based database in Taiwan. We retrieved data for this study from the Longitudinal Health Insurance Database 2005. This case-c...

AIMS (1) To determine the extent to which tonsil size contributes to the severity of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) in children; and (2) to assess the use of tonsillar-pharyngeal (TP) ratio in differentiating patients with different severity of OSA. METHODS Lateral neck radiograph was performed on 35 children referred consecutively to a university paediatric chest clinic for suspected OSA sec...