Indications of pediatric tonsillectomy

ORL

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 193-202

  Gysin, Claudine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Indications; OSAS; Pediatric; Tonsillectomy; Tonsillitis

Indexed keywords

PREDNISONE;

ADENOID HYPERTROPHY; ADENOTONSILLAR HYPERTROPHY; AGGRESSION; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APHTHOUS STOMATITIS; APNEA; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COR PULMONALE; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DYSPHAGIA; ENURESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAILURE TO THRIVE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A NEPHROPATHY; MOUTH BREATHING; NASOPHARYNX; NAUSEA; NOSE BREATHING; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PERITONSILLAR ABSCESS; PFAPA SYNDROME; PHARYNGITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULSE OXIMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SNORING; SORE THROAT; STREPTOCOCCAL PHARYNGITIS; SWEATING; TONSILLECTOMY; TONSILLITIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; UPPER AIRWAY RESISTANCE SYNDROME; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT OBSTRUCTION; VIRAL PHARYNGITIS; ACADEMIC FAILURE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; CHILD; DECREASED APPETITE; DYSPNEA; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NIGHT SWEAT; ORTHODONTICS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECURRENT TONSILLITIS; SLEEP AROUSAL DISORDER; SLEEP DISORDER; TONSIL ASYMMETRY; TONSIL DISEASE; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PALATINE TONSIL; PATIENT SELECTION; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; TONSILLECTOMY; TONSILLITIS;

EID: 84883162004     PISSN: 03011569     EISSN: 14230275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000342329     Document Type: Article

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