We describe a case of syringohydromyelia in association with a rare bone dysplasia, Van Buchem disease. The sclerotic calvarial thickening characteristic of this disease may have caused a small posterior fossa with herniation of the cerebellar tonsils, leading to syringohydromyelia. A 37-year-old woman with no relevant family history presented with dissociative anesthesia of the upper limbs, di...

The optimal site for the isolation of beta-hemolytic streptococci (BHS) from throat cultures was investigated in 164 healthy elementary school children. All throat cultures were streaked onto duplicate blood agar plates (BAP), one of which was taken from the tonsillar fossae and the other from the posterior pharynx. BHS were isolated in cultures from 56 (34.2%) of the children. BHS were more fr...

Introduction: Lymphoma is a common malignant tumor of the head and neck occurring during childhood. Early diagnosis is very important in terms of prognosis in patients with tonsillar lymphoma.Our objective was to evaluate the clinical manifestations of pediatric tonsillar lymphoma according to different age groups.  Materials and Methods: A systematic review of available English, Spanish, or Po...

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...

Aim:
 Chiari malformation is a spectrum of diseases that includes different subtypes, has wide clinical presentation, and therefore follow-up treatment methods. We aimed to compare scoring systems cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) dynamics obtained by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in Arnold Malformation Type-1 (CM-1) patients the preoperative postoperative periods.
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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...