title: [Recurrent and severe paratonsillitis in children].
abstract: The authors report their original observations of the peculiarities of recurrent and severe paratonsillitis in the children surveyed in Moscow. Special attention is given to the age-structure of the affected patients, causes underlying the development of paratonsillitis, and risk factors of its recurrent clinical course. Analysis of characteristics of local immunity of the palatal tonsils (such as the defensive level in tonsillar mucosa) involved the children with clinical manifestations of recurrent paratonsillitis and its episodic flares. It was shown that paratonsillitis is associated not only with inflammation of the paratonsillar cellular tissue but also with the immunodeficiency disorders at the local level.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007153:Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D007249:Inflammation / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D009031:Moscow; D014066:Palatine Tonsil / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D012008:Recurrence; D012307:Risk Factors; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014069:Tonsillitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology*