Today, indications for tonsillectomy are based mainly on clinical criteria rather than the functional state of palatine tonsils (PT). Determination secretory immunoglobulin A (sIgA) levels in oropharyngeal secretion before and after antigen load PT is one methods determining their capacity. However, this method has certain disadvantages, particular not only were area influence both specific non...

BE1FORE comiimencing my paper on recent views on the tonsil and adenioid problem, I xvill take you back to ancient timnes and verv briefly tell you somiiething about the tonsil problem of those days. In the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius there lived a imian, Cornelius (ialsus, who wrote an encVclopaxdia, in which, although not himilself a medical imian, lc emboilhocics a treatise on mle(di...

Background: We aimed to find some new indicators for tonsillectomy (TE) in adults with recurrent tonsillitis (RT) by exploring whether the frequency of tonsillitis episodes and the length of morbidity period are associated with the macroscopic signs of sclerotic process in tonsils and microbiological data assessed by culture, molecular (PCR) and transmission electron microscopy (EM) methods. Me...