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 ...

Swallowing and talking had become excruciating for the young woman, and her symptoms were progressing quickly.

Each month, Clinical Advisor makes one new clinical feature available ahead of print. Don’t forget to take the poll. The results will be published in the next month’s issue. A peritonsillar abscess ...

Doja Cat is recovering after have surgery to remove an abscess from her throat. The Grammy winner plans to quit smoking her vape, as well. “dr. just had to cut into my left tonsil. i had an abscess in ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 24-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a three-day history of worsening sore throat, pain with swallowing and fever. She had been seen by her primary care physician one day ...

I came down with an unrelenting sore throat about 15-20 years ago. For years I have tried to be discreet in prescribing antibiotics in most of my patients, for fear of causing resistance in bacteria ...

Doja Cat announced on Instagram that she will undergo tonsil surgery and must cancel her tour dates with The Weeknd, as well as her festival run this summer. Less than one week after winning Top R&B ...

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 ...

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