[Juvenile tonsillectomy and leukemia].
Among 305 children with leukemia, between one and fourteen years old, authors found 8 and in a comparative group ("individual matched pairs") 40 children with removed tonsils. The difference (2.62% tonsillectomized children in the leukemia-group, 13.11% in the comparative group) is highly significant. The frequency of tonsillectomy in childhood in Germany corresponds to the percentage of 13.11%. It has to be discussed, if there exists a causality between the state of the tonsils and the frequency of leukemia in childhood. The authors suggest further investigations of this highly interesting subject.
D000234:Adenoids / Q000473:pathology; D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004854:Herpesvirus 4, Human / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007244:Infectious Mononucleosis / Q000382:microbiology; D007938:Leukemia / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D014066:Palatine Tonsil / Q000473:pathology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014068:Tonsillectomy
Tonsillektomie und Leukämie im Kindesalter