DEEP CERVICAL INFECTION FOLLOWING TONSILLECTOMY: REPORT OF THIRTY CASES WITH A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

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A survey of English textbooks dealing with diseases of the throat discloses little mention of deep cervical infection following tonsillectomy. The enormous literature on the mishaps of this operation contains only eighty cases which come under this heading, and few of the writers have attempted to present the subject in detail. Dean 1 summarized the existing reports and cited three cases of his own. Subsequently, Kofler,2 Baum 3 and Wood 4 called attention to the phlegmons which occasionally follow removal of tonsils. Of late, interest in postoperative cervical infection has been revived in Germany through the papers of Gunther 5 and Herrman.6 The occurrence of this complication is neither as rare nor as unimportant as the preceding facts would seem to indicate. Following a case in my own practice, I was able, through the courtesy of a number of colleagues, to collect twenty-nine additional instances of deep cervical abscess following

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