Normal, Absent and Pathologic Tonsils in Young Women

Cunningham, Ruby L.

doi:10.1001/archinte.1932.00150100110009

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“…Cunningham 13 found that one third of 12,530 young white women who entered the University of California as students between 1920 and 1929 had had an operation for removal of tonsils.…”

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Tonsillectomy: Local Results and Influence of the Operation on Surrounding Tissues

Campbell¹

1939

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

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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 practitioners and those obtained by specialists.

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“…Cunningham 13 found that one third of 12,530 young white women who entered the University of California as students between 1920 and 1929 had had an operation for removal of tonsils.…”

Section: Tissue Obtained From the Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Tonsillectomy: Local Results and Influence of the Operation on Surrounding Tissues

Campbell¹

1939

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

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The Immunologic Aspect of Electrosurgery in Rhinolaryngology

Silvers¹

1935

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

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In 1932 I1 described a reaction, specific in nature, which occurs with each electrosurgical treatment of an infected focus. Subsequent observations have brought to light a rational explanation for the "immunity reaction" which follows electrocoagulation. In order that a scientific appraisal of this so-called "autogenous vaccine reaction" may be made, an analysis of the reaction in 100 patients on whom electrosurgical tonsillectomy was performed has been undertaken.The throat of each patient was swabbed and the predominant organism isolated by smear and culture at the initial treatment. A measured dose of electrocoagulation, desiccation and fulguration was given each patient at each weekly sitting. The time at which the reaction occurred, its duration, type and severity, whether local or general in scope, were noted and recorded in each case.It has been apparent for some time that patients responded with a marked degree of variation in the intensity of their reaction, both local and general, to the standardized electrosurgical treatment of each tonsil. At first, it appeared cursorily that an idiosyncrasy of each patient was sufficient to account for this variation. Empirical observation, followed by systematic analysis, revealed a definite causative factor for the immunologic response to surgical diathermy.Many investigators have noted the end-results of tonsillectomy in childhood and adolescence. The work of Kaiser,2 lately corroborated by Cunningham 3 and by Glover and Wilson,4 stands out as a beacon to a more scientific interpretation of the effects of tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy. Their observations show that the condition of the tonsils is of minor importance in the history of the health of the patient and in the determination of physical measurements; that the contention 1. Silvers, Lewis J.

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Is sinus trouble being overstressed? a critical survey of the sinus problem

Krimsky¹

1936

The Laryngoscope

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Normal, Absent and Pathologic Tonsils in Young Women

Cited by 3 publications

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Tonsillectomy: Local Results and Influence of the Operation on Surrounding Tissues

Tonsillectomy: Local Results and Influence of the Operation on Surrounding Tissues

The Immunologic Aspect of Electrosurgery in Rhinolaryngology

Is sinus trouble being overstressed? a critical survey of the sinus problem

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