title: Tonsillar focal infection: clinical observations of low grade fever.
abstract: Thirty patients (above 18 years) who had complained of low grade fever were diagnosed as having tonsillar focal infection. We performed tonsillectomies on all the patients. A total of 24 were cured and 6 patients improved after the operation. These results indicate that tonsillectomy is often an effective treatment for tonsillar focal infection. However, the provocation test did not always give a good result.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Fujita Health University, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Nagoya, Japan.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Takeuchi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yagisawa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nishimura
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002176:Candida albicans / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005260:Female; D006193:Haemophilus influenzae / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011550:Pseudomonas aeruginosa / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012705:Serratia / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014068:Tonsillectomy; D014069:Tonsillitis / Q000382:microbiology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome