Relation between peritonsillar infection and acute tonsillitis: Myth or reality?

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 145, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 940-945

  Kordeluk, Sofia ^a   Novack, Lena ^a   Puterman, Moshe ^a   Kraus, Mordechai ^a   Joshua, Ben Zion ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acute tonsillitis; Complicated tonsillitis; Peritonsillar abscess; Peritonsillar cellulitis; Season

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERITONSILLAR ABSCESS; PERITONSILLAR INFECTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX RATIO; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TONSILLITIS; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; ACUTE DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; HOSPITALIZATION; INCIDENCE; ISRAEL; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PROGNOSIS; REGISTER; TONSILLECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DRAINAGE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONSILLAR ABSCESS; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TONSILLECTOMY; TONSILLITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856074270     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: 10976817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0194599811415802     Document Type: Article

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