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The surgical treatment of the tonsils may cause different complications including even death. The author gives the examples of such complications and also pays attention to the importance of being cautious during this intervention.
The author has described a historic progress of tonsillectomy. He has also noticed that in present decade passes 100 years from the first execution of tonsillectomy (in today meaning of that intervention). Observing the development of the technics of tonsillectomy the author came to the conclusion that nowadays palate tonsils are removed in classical way ("dissection Method") or by "guillotine Method".
The author analysed the 38734 out of 39653 tonsillectomies performed in region of Gdańsk during the years 1961-85. Age, sex and kind of intervention were evaluated (adenoidectomy, tonsillectomy, adenotonsillectomy and others). The frequency of above mentioned surgery was reduced during these 23 years by 32% (from 14.5 to 9.8 for 10,000). The great majority of this surgery was performed in children aged 3 to 7 years. The rarest age was below 3 and over 40. Under the age of 11 years prevailed boys, over 11 girls. Adenoidectomy represented 65% of cases, adenotonsillectomy only 6.6%. The tonsillotomy was also present. The author discussed the reason of decreasing number of tonsillectomy.
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