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Journal of the Faculty of Medicine-Baghdad. 1996; 38 (2): 94-7
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RESUMEN
This study is on the bacteriological and histological finding of chronic tonsillitis, carried on tonsils removed at surgery from 20 patient during the end of the year 1994. The selection was randomly done on patients who have been listed for tonsillectomy in E.N.T. department at Al-Shaheed Adnan hospital. The bacteriological finding was variable, ranging from non pathogenic flora to most common pathogenic bacteria, the B- haemolytic streptococci. The histological finding reveled cryptitis, deep seated microabsceses, round cell infiltration [macrophage] and fibrosis, which has been found at different levels of the tonsillar structure