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THEIR RELATION TO THE USUAL INDICATIONS FOR TONSILLECTOMY

PAUL S. RHOADS, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1932;15(4):599-609.

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Tonsillectomy is by far the most frequent operation undertaken in this country.¹ Yet there is a surprising lack of agreement as to the proper indications for the procedure.

Most often, probably, the decision as to whether tonsils need to be removed or not is based on the results of inspection of the throat and palpation of the neck. In hospital and dispensary practice such comments as the following often appear on the charts of patients: "Tonsils not infected, tonsillectomy not indicated," or "Badly infected tonsils, tonsillectomy urgently needed," etc. Conversation usually reveals that the conception of "infected tonsils" referred to in such comments is approximately that described by Newkirk² in his discussion of the indications for tonsillectomy:

A large tonsil usually contains infection and every effort should be made to find that infection. It is our custom to consider one or two points in the local . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHICAGO

From the Wallace R. Lane Fund and the John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Oct. 22, 1931.

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