A previously healthy 42-year-old man developed, after a neglected tonsillitis, a severe Fusobacterium necrophorum septicemia with disseminated intravascular coagulation. Peripheral, painful, cyanotic and gangrenous lesions appeared on toes, external ears and nose tip. The patient survived. Consumption coagulopathy associated with tonsillitis should suggest F. necrophorum infection. Growth of th...

Introduction. The relevance of the treatment chronic tonsillitis is due to both high prevalence and severity course disease with variable development tonsillogenic complications, local general. Important aspects are not always effective results conservative methods treatment, including use antibacterial drugs and, as a result, decrease in quality life patients. Objective. Based on dynamics bloo...

IMPORTANCE Helicobacter pylori colonization contributes significantly to multiple disease states, but its role in the development of tonsillar infection is unclear. Understanding the causes of chronic tonsillitis is important in clinical decision making of this commonly treated disease. OBJECTIVE To assess the correlation between H pylori colonization of tonsillar tissue in chronic tonsilliti...

Letters IncreasIngly Hard to swallow-18 years of cHangIng tonsIllectomy practIce In nortHern Ireland. editor, The clinical and economic value of tonsillectomy has been the subject of debate for decades. The McKinsey Report 1 considered tonsillectomy (along with a number of other procedures) to be a 'relatively ineffective, and often unjustified' procedure, stating that reducing tonsillectomies ...

The bacteriology of acute tonsillitis and the normal flora of the throat in children is interesting and somewhat puzzling. Several studies (Box, Cleveland and Willard, 1961; Reilly et al, 1981; Toner et al, 1986) have shown that the culture of throat swabs taken from children with a history of acute tonsillitis does not differ, in terms of organisms cultured, from those taken from normal childr...

Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a life-threatening syndrome of excessive immune activation, which is characterized by fever, hepatosplenomegaly, cytopenias, hyperferritinemia, hypertriglyceridemia, and/or hypofibrinogenemia, and evidence of hemophagocytosis. Secondary HLH is often seen in adults and categorized based on autoimmune, infections-related, and malignancy-associated etiol...

A 32-year-old lady presented to our ENT service with worsening tonsillitis. This was one of multiple attacks; all of which had all followed periods of self-induced vomiting due to the patient suffering with bulimia nervosa. Here we present the first ever case report of such a case of tonsillitis and a review of the literature of otolaryngology manifestations and complications of bulimia nervosa.