[Bacteremia in tonsillectomy: Sluder's technique versus dissection. Preliminary results].
Fifty-one patients undergoing elective tonsillectomy for recurrent acute tonsillitis, 21 by dissection tonsillectomy (41%), and 30 guillotine tonsillectomy (59%). Positive post-operative blood cultures were obtained in 22 patients (43%), but only 4 in the dissection group (19%) and in 18 of the guillotine group (60%). Streptococci (21.5%) and Staphylococci (9.8%) are the commonest organisms cultured. This data are suggestive for the necessity of an antibiotic prophylaxis before tonsillectomy.
Olina
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M
Garavelli
P L
PL
Grosso
E
E
Guglielmetti
C
C
Pia
F
F
D000293:Adolescent; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014068:Tonsillectomy / Q000379:methods*; D014069:Tonsillitis / Q000601:surgery