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Clinicians have successfully used antibiotics and steroids, instead of an aerosol-generating procedure, to treat a COVID-19-positive man's peritonsillar abscess. Details were published on September 7 ...

Peritonsillar abscess or Quinsy is a collection of pus between the fibrous capsule of the tonsil usually in the upper pole and the super constrictor muscle of the pharynx. It frequently follows as a ...

Pus is seen oozing out of the painful lump as it’s cut away. “The video shows the incision and drainage of right tonsil abscess,” he said. “Initial oral antibiotic therapy has failed and he became ...

A stomach-churning video shows the moment a doctor drains a huge abscess in a woman's throat. The growth on the patient's tonsil is prodded and grabbed with a pair of tweezers before being sliced with ...

Dr. Margaret B. Mitchell (Otolaryngology): A 29-year-old woman was admitted to this hospital because of sore throat and peritonsillar swelling and bleeding. The patient had been well until 7 weeks ...

This 22-year-old woman attends the surgery complaining of persistent sore throat after being treated for suspected tonsillitis two weeks previously with a course of penicillin V. She reports that her ...

The tonsils are the two small masses of glandular tissue lying on either side of the back of the throat. Healthy tonsils are small, pinkish lumps of glandular tissue, much the same colour as the ...

Tonsillitis caused by strep infection is treated with antibiotics, which rapidly cures the infection. Antibiotics cannot help in the case of a viral infection. Viral infections of the tonsils are ...

Differential diagnoses of PTA include epiglottitis (inflammation of the epiglottis), infectious mononucleosis, lymphoma, peritonsillar cellulitis and retromolar or retropharyngeal abscess. 1 On ...

WATCH the stomach-churning moment a doctor drains a pus-filled abscess in a woman’s throat. Surgeon Rahmat Omar can be seen using a tool to burn away the growth on the woman’s tonsil. Pus is seen ...