title: [Giant tonsillolith in a child].
abstract: We describe a case of a 7-year-old child with Down syndrome who presented with loud snoring and cessation of breath during sleep and was found to have a large calculus (20 mm X 12 mm X 12 mm) in her left tonsil by CT scan for which tonsillectomy with adenoidectomy were done. This is one of the youngest reported cases in the literature.
authors.forename: Guochen
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zhu
mesh_terms: D000233:Adenoidectomy; D002137:Calculi / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008206:Lymphatic Diseases; D014066:Palatine Tonsil / Q000473:pathology*; D010608:Pharyngeal Diseases; D012890:Sleep; D012913:Snoring; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014068:Tonsillectomy