Tonsillitis Caused by Vomiting in a Patient with Bulimia Nervosa: A Case Report and Literature Review

A 32-year-old lady presented to our ENT service with worsening tonsillitis. This was one of multiple attacks; all of which had all followed periods of self-induced vomiting due to the patient suffering with bulimia nervosa. Here we present the first ever case report of such a case of tonsillitis and...

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Autor principal: Bannister, Miles
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3603656/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23533885
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/251629
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description A 32-year-old lady presented to our ENT service with worsening tonsillitis. This was one of multiple attacks; all of which had all followed periods of self-induced vomiting due to the patient suffering with bulimia nervosa. Here we present the first ever case report of such a case of tonsillitis and a review of the literature of otolaryngology manifestations and complications of bulimia nervosa.
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spelling pubmed-36036562013-03-26 Tonsillitis Caused by Vomiting in a Patient with Bulimia Nervosa: A Case Report and Literature Review Bannister, Miles Case Rep Otolaryngol Case Report A 32-year-old lady presented to our ENT service with worsening tonsillitis. This was one of multiple attacks; all of which had all followed periods of self-induced vomiting due to the patient suffering with bulimia nervosa. Here we present the first ever case report of such a case of tonsillitis and a review of the literature of otolaryngology manifestations and complications of bulimia nervosa. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-03-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3603656/ /pubmed/23533885 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/251629 Text en Copyright © 2013 Miles Bannister. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Tonsillitis Caused by Vomiting in a Patient with Bulimia Nervosa: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_full Tonsillitis Caused by Vomiting in a Patient with Bulimia Nervosa: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_fullStr Tonsillitis Caused by Vomiting in a Patient with Bulimia Nervosa: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_full_unstemmed Tonsillitis Caused by Vomiting in a Patient with Bulimia Nervosa: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_short Tonsillitis Caused by Vomiting in a Patient with Bulimia Nervosa: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_sort tonsillitis caused by vomiting in a patient with bulimia nervosa: a case report and literature review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3603656/
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