Prevention in chronic tonsillitis

Tonsillectomy is amongst the most common surgical procedures carried out in children. The diagnosis of chronic tonsillitis is made mainly on history and clinical examination. We intend to document different presentations in this common disease in our part of world and today the indications for the procedure are defined much more precisely

Surface and core flora in recurrent tonsillitis

Recurrent tonsillitis is managed by ENT surgeons quite frequently. Thirty five such patients underwent tonsillectomty and samples were taken from the surface and core of tonsillar tissue and sent for aerobic and anaerobic culture. Results revealed a marked discrepency between surface and core organisms. It was concluded that superficial throat swab has little role to identify all bacteria responsible. Therapeutic recommendations need to be reconsidered on these grounds