Changing trends of peritonsillar abscess

American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 162-167

  Marom, Tal ^a   Cinamon, Udi ^a   Itskoviz, David ^a   Roth, Yehudah ^a,b  

^a WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN G;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BETA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELLULITIS; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; EDEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; GENDER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ODYNOPHAGIA; PARAPHARYNGEAL CELLULITIS; PERITONSILLAR ABSCESS; PHARYNGITIS; PHARYNGOTONSILLITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASON; SMOKING; SORE THROAT; SUPRAGLOTTIC EDEMA; SYMPTOM; TONSILLITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ISRAEL; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONSILLAR ABSCESS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS; SMOKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951298271     PISSN: 01960709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjoto.2008.12.003     Document Type: Article

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