Familial clustering of tonsillectomies and adenoidectomies.
Eighty-one children undergoing tonsillectomies and adenoidectomies (T and A) were compared with a control group of 88 hospital patients. A significantly higher incidence of prior T and A was found to have been performed on the siblings and parents of the T and A group than the controls. Environmental, genetic or attitudinal factors could be responsible for this familial clustering.
D000233:Adenoidectomy; D000234:Adenoids; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation / Q000235:genetics; D007557:Israel; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents; D012931:Social Environment; D013029:Space-Time Clustering; D014068:Tonsillectomy; D014069:Tonsillitis / Q000235:genetics*