Latar Belakang: Tonsilitis kronis adalah suatu peradangan pada tonsil. Walaupun data terkait karakteristik pasien tonsilitis sudah relatif banyak, selama masa pandemi COVID-19 masih sulit ditemui.
 Objektif: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui di Poliklinik THT-KL RSUP Dr. M. Djamil, Padang, Tahun 2020.
 Metode: merupakan penelitian deskriptif retrospektif, menggunakan sekunder ...

Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome is a type of sleep-disordered breathing that affects 1 to 5% of all children. Pharyngeal and palatine tonsil hypertrophy is the main predisposing factor. Various abnormalities are predisposing factors for obstructive sleep apnoea, such as decreased mandibular and maxillary lengths, skeletal retrusion, increased lower facial height and, consequently, increased t...

A 19-year-old female presented to ENT OPD of Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Hospital, with history of foreign body sensation in throat for 2 weeks and mass in left tonsil for 1 week. There is no history of difficulty swallowing or recurrent throat infection. Physical examination revealed a pedunculated mass arising from upper pole of left tonsil. Bilateral tonsillectomy was done under...

OBJECTIVE To determine clinical and baseline polysomnographic data on obstructive sleep apnoea secondary to adenotonsillar hypertrophy in Hong Kong Chinese children. DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING University teaching hospital, Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS Fifty children (35 boys and 15 girls) suspected to have obstructive sleep apnoea were recruited between January 1999 and December 1999. ...

Squamous cell tonsil carcinoma is the most frequent form of oropharyngeal cancer, representing 70-80% of the total of head and neck malignant tumors. Poor clinical symptoms make that 60-80% of patients with squamous cell tonsil carcinoma have a late diagnosis, in the third and fourth stages, when the tumor exceeds the organ limits, invading the pharyngeal wall or the tongue base, being associat...

INTRODUCTION Peritonsillar abscess is generally seen as a complication of acute tonsillitis in young subjects. It may, however, in rare cases reveal a malignant tumor of the tonsil: most often squamous cell carcinoma or, more rarely, lymphoma. We report a rare case of tonsillar lymphoma revealed by a peritonsillar abscess. CASE REPORT A 66-year-old woman, without history of recurrent tonsilli...

Our patient with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) not only displayed many typical syndromic features but also presented several unique challenges, with gross velopharyngeal insufficiency necessitating repair and severe obstructive sleep apnea developing thereafter, requiring ongoing non-invasive ventilation. This coincided with development of a narcolepsy-like syndrome, treated with dexamphetamine. ...

Amongst the various cystic lesions of oral cavity, Lymphoepithelial cyst (LEC) is a rare lesion that presents as an asymptomatic submucosal mass and usually discovered during routine examinations. Most common site occurence floor mouth but tonsillar involvement seems to be very rare. Pathogenesis involves excessive accumulation desquamated epithelial lining in crypt. This results dilated obstru...

When squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) involves the palatine tonsils, they are generally enlarged and demonstrate intermediate to high signal intensity on T2-weighted MR images and enhance after gadolinium administration. We have identified two patients with SCC of the tonsil where the affected tonsil has low signal intensity on T2-weighted MR images and is smaller than the contralateral normal ton...