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A Five-Year Experience

Fred S. Herzon, MD

Arch Otolaryngol. 1984;110(2):104-105.

Abstract
• Forty-one patients with proved peritonsillar abscesses were treated during a five-year period with needle aspiration as the sole initial surgical treatment. Ninety percent (37/41) of the patients' abscesses resolved without further invasive therapy. All but two of the patients were treated as outpatients. Fifty percent (21/41) of the patients were treated by nonotolaryngologists. These data indicate that outpatient needle aspiration is the simplest, most cost-effective therapy for peritonsillar abscess.

(Arch Otolaryngol 1984;110:104-105)

Author Affiliations
From the Division of Otolaryngology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication June 5, 1983.

Reprint requests to the Division of Otolaryngology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, 2211 Lomas Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106 (Dr Herzon).

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