Chronic Tonsillitis and Pyelonephritis

Immunoregulatory cytokines and chronic tonsillitis.

The purposes of the present study were to determine the distribution of cells producing cytokines: tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) and interleukin 6 (IL-6) in different morphological sections of tonsils in patients with tonsillar hypertrophy (TH) and recurrent tonsillitis (RT), to analyze the level of production of these cytokines in TH and RT and evaluate the potential of peripheral blood lymp...

Chronic tonsillitis: histological and immunohistochemical aspects.

OBJECTIVES Chronic tonsillitis represents the most common inflammatory lesions of the pharynx determining numerous local or distant evolutive complications. We decided to study the histological and especially immunohistochemical expression of this pathology. MATERIAL AND METHODS We have studied 112 surgical samples representing tonsils resected from 56 patients with chronic tonsillitis. The t...

Chronic Pyelonephritis and Arterial Hypertension.

Chronic Brucella Pyelonephritis with Calcification

The Radiology of Chronic Pyelonephritis.

CHRONIC pyelonephritis is a generic term meaning different things to different people. To perhaps the majority it signifies the small, coarsely scarred kidney of what is also known as "atrophic pyelonephritis", which gives rise to hypertension in young people, or, if it is bilateral to renal failure and death. To some it embodies a histological picture which may be found in many conditions and ...