This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Tonsillectomy is the second most common childhood ambulatory surgical procedure, and in the United States alone it is perfor...

Background/Aim: Tonsillectomy is one of the widely performed surgical procedures by otolaryngologists. Today, many new instruments are used in tonsil surgery to reduce postoperative morbidity. This study aimed compare intraoperative blood loss, operating time, pain, and bleeding between harmonic scalpel tonsillectomy, coblation bipolar cold dissection tonsillectomy adult patients. Methods: pros...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate efficiency and postoperative morbidity in tonsillectomy using the harmonic scalpel (HS) vs conventional electrocautery (EC). DESIGN A retrospective medical chart review of all patients who underwent tonsillectomy at a single children's hospital during a 32-month period from January 2001 to August 2003. PATIENTS The charts of 605 patients who underwent tonsillectomy or ...

Palatine and nasopharyngeal tonsils are lymphatic flesh clusters of tissue of the respiratory and digestive tract’s epithelium (1). Classification by site includes palatine, lingual and pharyngeal tonsils. They have important role in the body’s immune system, once they are near the entrance to the breathing passages where incoming antigens may be aspirated or ingested (2). 1. The palatine tonsi...

INTRODUCTION Spontaneous tonsillar hemorrhage is defined as continuous bleeding for more than one hour, or more than 250mL of blood loss regardless of the duration of bleeding. It is an often under-diagnosed and under-reported complication of acute or chronic tonsillitis, with controversial management. We suggest that an emergency tonsillectomy should be performed as first-line treatment for th...

Post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage is a relatively common complication but life-threatening bleedings are rare. In this paper, we present a case who had undergone tonsillectomy with bipolar diathermy in an another hospital and who was referred to our clinic following a massive hemorrhage from the tonsil bed on the 27th postoperative day. Upon determining that the bleeding was caused by the necrosis ...

Abstract Palatine tonsillectomy is a surgical procedure that novice otolaryngologists should master early and taught at many medical institutions. Unfortunately, however, the transoral cannot provide large enough field of view to doctors other than one performing operation. Therefore, it difficult share real-time teaching. Dissection wrong layer can cause postoperative bleeding pain. Our depart...

Background: Post-tonsillectomy bleeding is life threatening. A previous study found that 30% of patients who suffered from post-operative bleeding did not seek medical assistance although instructed to do so. We therefore compiled a new list of instructions and a colorful illustrated booklet written in 4 languages.

Objective To assess posttonsillectomy hemorrhage (PTH), associated nonoperative readmissions/revisits, and reoperations in children. Data Sources MEDLINE, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Library. Review Methods Two investigators independently screened studies against predetermined criteria and extracted key data. Investigators independently assessed study risk of bias and the strength of the evidence ...

OBJECTIVE To conduct an adequately powered, prospective, randomised, controlled trial comparing adult dissection tonsillectomy using either ultrasonic scalpel, bipolar electrocautery, bipolar radiofrequency or 'cold steel' dissection. METHODS Three hundred patients were randomised into four tonsillectomy technique groups. The operative time, intra-operative bleeding, post-operative pain, tons...