Peritonsillar abscess
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Peritonsillar Abscess Overview
A peritonsillar abscess forms in the tissues of the throat next to one of the tonsils. An abscess is a collection of pus that forms near an area of infected skin or other soft tissue.
Peritonsillar abscess
Alternate Names : Quinsy, Abscess - peritonsillar
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Peritonsillar abscess is generally a disease of older children, adolescents, and young adults. It has become relatively uncommon since the use of antibiotics to treat tonsillitis.
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Peritonsillar abscess is a collection of infected material in the area around the tonsils.
See also: Retropharyngeal abscess
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Peritonsillar abscess and cellulitis are acute pharyngeal infections most common among adolescents and young adults. Symptoms are severe sore throat, trismus, hot potato voice, and uvular deviation. Diagnosis requires needle aspiration.
A peritonsillar abscess (say: pair-ee-TON-sill-er AB-sess) occurs when a sore filled with pus (a thick, whitish-yellow fluid) forms near one of your tonsils. The tonsils are the oval-shaped areas of pink tissue on each side at the back of your throat.
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Peritonsillar abscess
Peritonsillar abscesses are the most common infections of the head and neck region and usually develop as a result of tonsillitis (an infection of the tonsils).
Peritonsillar Abscess
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A peritonsillar abscess (PTA) is a collection of pus (purulent material) between the tonsils and the peritonsillar tissue (tonsillar capsule) at the back of the throat.
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Peritonsillar abscesses are most often found in older children, adolescents and young adults. They are less common than in the past because tonsillitis is now often treated with antibiotics, which destroy the infection-causing bacteria.
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Peritonsillar abscesses are often caused by a type of bacteria called Group A beta-hemolytic streptococci. Antibiotics must be given and a small operation is also usually necessary to drain the pus out of the abscess.
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A peritonsillar abscess (also known as quinsy) is a collection of pus behind your tonsils. This usually only happens in adults. Symptoms of a peritonsillar abscess include a sore throat and swelling in your neck, sometimes on only one side.
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Retropharyngeal abscess generally affects children under age 5, but it can occur at any age.
Quinsy is peritonsillar abscess. It is an infection of the tonsil, between the tonsil and the pharyngeal constrictor muscle. The solution is not a tonsillectomy, but the care specified below.
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Retropharyngeal, parapharyngeal, peritonsillar abscess. As a result of throat infections like strep throat and tonsillitis, bacteria invade the deeper tissues of the throat and cause a parapharyngeal or peritonsillar abscess.
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peritonsillar abscess - an abscess that forms in the tissue walls beside the tonsils (the lymph organs in the back of the throat). Peritonsillar abscesses are most common in adolescents and young adults and are rarely seen in young children.
Lemierre syndrome develops most often after a strep sore throat has created a peritonsillar abscess, a crater filled with pus and bacteria near the tonsils.
This is also known as peritonsillar abscess. An abscess is a collection of pus. Quinsy is an uncommon condition where an abscess develops next to a tonsil due to a bacterial infection. It usually develops just on one side.
Peritonsillar abscess is a collection of pus behind the tonsils.
Obstruction to breathing by enlarged tonsils and adenoids may cause snoring and disturbed sleep patterns.
Left untreated, tonsillitis can lead to a collection of pus (an abscess) between a tonsil and the soft tissues around it (peritonsillar abscess).
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An abscess around the tonsils (peritonsillar abscess) may be treated with a simple procedure in which a small incision is made to drain the abscess, although removing the tonsils is appropriate in some of these cases.
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This is termed a peritonsillar abscess (or quinsy). Rarely the infection may spread beyond the tonsil resulting in inflammation and infection of the internal jugular vein giving rise to a spreading septicaemia infection (Lemierre's syndrome).
There are several types of tonsillitis such as acute, recurrent, chronic, and peritonsillar abscesses.
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Chronic or recurrent tonsil infections-Tonsillectomy may reduce the number, but will not completely eliminate, these infections.
Peritonsillar abscess (pocket of infection spreading outside the tonsil) ...
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An abscess in the connective tissue around a tonsil usually resulting from bacterial infection and often accompanied by fever, pain, and swelling -- called also peritonsillar abscess. [Webster].
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