A Novel Technique for Intraoral Ultrasound-Guided Aspiration of Peritonsillar Abscess

Peritonsillar abscess (PTA) is a common complication to acute tonsillitis. The treatment is drainage of the abscess, but many needle aspirations are unsuccessful due to a low diagnostic accuracy based on oral examination only. In this article, we describe how intraoral ultrasound can be added to imp...

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Autores principales: Todsen, Tobias, Stage, Mads Georg, Holst Hahn, Christoffer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6174334/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30072648
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics8030050
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Sumario:Peritonsillar abscess (PTA) is a common complication to acute tonsillitis. The treatment is drainage of the abscess, but many needle aspirations are unsuccessful due to a low diagnostic accuracy based on oral examination only. In this article, we describe how intraoral ultrasound can be added to improve the diagnostic work-up of PTA and present a novel technique for ultrasound-guided aspiration of PTA, using a small pencil-shaped transducer. We present our first clinical experiences with this technique and describe how it could be integrated in a clinical setting to guide safe and successful needle aspirations of PTA.

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