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Abstract
SU11U1UlT!J & Conclusion
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
Chronic non specific tonsillitis is a disease much more
common in children than in adults.
It may cause different complications either local to the
upper and lower respiratory tissues or systemic to the renal or
cardiac tissues as the tonsils act in this case as a septic
dangerous focus.
Our study included 20 children, their ages ranged between
5-15 years old, 11 of them were boys and 9 ofthem were girls.
All children had complained of repeated attacks of
recurrent tonsillitis for at least 4 times.
Examination of tonsil showed signs of chronic tonsillar
infection as congested tonsils, congested anterior pillars, the
presence of tonsillar debris or/and the presence of enlarged
upper deep cervical lymph glands.
Those children underwent tonsillectomy by dissection
under general anaesthesia and the surgically resected tonsils
were examined histopathologically.
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Summary & Conc{usion
Another 5 tonsils of stillbirth babies were removed as a
control.
Examination of the tonsils revealed in most of the cases,
hypertrophy of the tonsils while in few cases atrophic sizes,
there were also thickening of the tonsillar capsule and the
presence of tonsillar debris.
Histopathological examination showed, the presence of
partial ulceration of the epithelium, follicular hyperplasia,
chronic inflammatory cellular infiltration, cryptogenic debris
and in few cases intratonsillar abscess and retention cysts. In
few cases generalized diffuse atrophy of all tonsillar components
with subsequent fibrosis.
from our study we can conclude that there is a good
correlation between clinical diagnosis and histopathological
examination of chronic tonsillitis i.e, histopathological
examination of chronic tonsillitis confirmed the clinical
diagnosis and valideted its criteria.
So, we can depend on clinical diagnosis for taking the
decision to do tonsillectomy.