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LOCAL RESULTS AND INFLUENCE OF THE OPERATION ON SURROUNDING TISSUES

EDWARD H. CAMPBELL, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1939;30(6):863-871.

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The problem of the recurrence of tonsillar tissue following tonsillectomy is one that has received much consideration. In spite of many articles drawing attention to the local results of this operation and investigations to reveal the causes of the recurrence of tonsillar tissue, tonsillectomized patients are constantly returning to those who operated on them, not only unimproved symptomatically but with throats showing the signs of incomplete and poorly performed operations. It is true that the surgical work on many of them has been performed by general practitioners, general surgeons and at times pediatricians, but on many others it has been done by specialists in otolaryngology. It is my purpose in this presentation to reveal the results of a statistical study of tonsillectomized persons as regards the recurrence of tonsillar tissue, injury to the faucial pillars and hypertrophy of pharyngeal lymphoid tissue and to draw a comparison between results obtained by . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
PHILADELPHIA

From the Department of Otolaryngology, University of Pennsylvania.

Footnotes
Read at the Sixty-First Annual Meeting of the American Laryngological Association, Rye, N. Y., May 25, 1939.

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