The Moraxella immunoglobulin (Ig) D-binding protein (MID) induces a strong proliferative response in human peripheral blood IgD+ B cells from adults isolated by positive selection using anti-CD19-conjugated microbeads. Here, we show that tonsillar B cells from children isolated with positive selection are unable to respond to MID stimulation. The proliferative response was very low or absent at...

Spontaneous tonsillar hemorrhage is a rare event; most of these cases have been the result of infectious tonsillitis.1 There are reported cases of spontaneous tonsillar hemorrhage in medical literature associated with bacterial infection, measles virus infection, infectious mononucleosis, peritonsillar, parapharyngeal and retropharyngeal abscesses and, less frequently, vascular malformation, an...

nineteen lymph node biopsies, 3 curetting, 15 blood samples obtained from patients with lymphadenitis and high titers of toxoplasma antibodies, and 27 tonsillar tissues removed from patients because of chronic tonsillitis were inoculated intraperitoneally into mice for isolation of toxoplasma gondii. toxoplasms were isolated from 5 lymph node biopsies, one curettage material, 2 tonsillar tissue...

Small cell cancer (SCC) of the tonsil is a rare and aggressive cancer. There are only 10 cases of tonsillar SCC reported in the English literature. We present a case of tonsillar SCC successfully treated with induction chemotherapy using carboplatin and etoposide followed by concurrent chemoradiation therapy with cisplatin as radiosensitizer. The patient remained free of recurrence after 3 year...

The aims of this doctoral thesis were to characterize patients with recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) in northern Sweden, including voice quality and quality of life, evaluate the incidence of tonsillar cancer longitudinally in northern Sweden and to study the correlation between human papillomavirus (HPV), its surrogate marker p16 and HPV receptor syndecan-1 in tonsillar cancer and mo...

OBJECTIVES The etiology of Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor(IMT) is contentious. In this study, we used computed tomography (CT) to examine tonsillar IMT and further analyzed the etiology of this entity. METHODOLOGY We presented CT features of left tonsillar IMT and reviewed the English-language literature published between 1984 and 2011. RESULTS To our knowledge, there are only six publi...

We previously found that tonsillar application of antigen induces a strong antibody response to Streptococcus sobrinus in saliva and blood plasma. Rabbits immunized against S. sobrinus by tonsillar application were highly resistant to experimental dental caries triggered by oral inoculation of living S. sobrinus organisms with sucrose. In the present study, we examined the reaction of S. sobrin...

Metastasis from a malignant tumor to the palatine tonsils is rare, with only 100 cases reported in the English-language literature. Tonsillar metastasis from a gastric cancer is very rare. We report here a case of palatine tonsillar metastasis after gastric cancer surgery. The patient was an 88-year-old woman who had gastric cancer with abdominal wall invasion. She had undergone a distal gastre...