Chronic Tonsillitis and the Upper Cervical Spine

Lewit K, Abrahamovic M,

Abstract (author's translation)

The authors investigated 46 patients with chronic tonsillitis.

Only in 5 (11%), blockage in the craniocervical junction were absent.

The most frequently affected segment was between the occipital bone

and the atlas (in 36 patients), between the atlas and axis in two and between the axis and C3 in three patients. In 28 treatment was only surgical. There blockage disappeared only in four, in two blockage developed operation. Five patients were treated before operation also

by manipulation. There the blockage relapsed only once. In 10 treatment was by manipulation only. During the observation period (from 3-9 months) not a single relapse of blockage or tonsillitis was observed

during the winter period.

Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE

ISSN: 0036-5327

Language: Cze

Journal Name: SBORNIK LEKARSKY

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Medline ID: 75085390

Citation: (Chronicka tonzilitida a horni krcni pater),

Sb Lek 77: 1, 30-2, Jan, 1975.