Giant tonsillolith causing odynophagia in a child: a rare case report

Giant tonsillolith is a rare clinical entity. Commonly, it occurs between 20–77 years of age. We had a twelve years old female patient, who had odynophagia due to a giant tonsillolith. The stone was removed and tonsillectomy was performed. We reviewed the literature on this rare clinical entity and...

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Autores principales: Thakur, Jagdeep S, Minhas, Ravinder S, Thakur, Anamika, Sharma, Dev R, Mohindroo, Narinder K
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2491595/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18638406
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-50
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author Thakur, Jagdeep S
Minhas, Ravinder S
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Mohindroo, Narinder K
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description Giant tonsillolith is a rare clinical entity. Commonly, it occurs between 20–77 years of age. We had a twelve years old female patient, who had odynophagia due to a giant tonsillolith. The stone was removed and tonsillectomy was performed. We reviewed the literature on this rare clinical entity and found that this is the fourth case of giant tonsillolith in a child and largest ever tonsillolith to be reported in English literature.
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spelling pubmed-24915952008-07-31 Giant tonsillolith causing odynophagia in a child: a rare case report Thakur, Jagdeep S Minhas, Ravinder S Thakur, Anamika Sharma, Dev R Mohindroo, Narinder K Cases J Case Report Giant tonsillolith is a rare clinical entity. Commonly, it occurs between 20–77 years of age. We had a twelve years old female patient, who had odynophagia due to a giant tonsillolith. The stone was removed and tonsillectomy was performed. We reviewed the literature on this rare clinical entity and found that this is the fourth case of giant tonsillolith in a child and largest ever tonsillolith to be reported in English literature. BioMed Central 2008-07-18 /pmc/articles/PMC2491595/ /pubmed/18638406 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-50 Text en Copyright © 2008 Thakur et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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