Tonsils are two oval pads of tissues that are on either side of the throat and project out into it. The uvula is what we see dangling down from the soft palate between the tonsils. They are very ...

GoFundMe screengrab An 11-year-old boy put into a medically-induced coma after complications from his tonsillectomy now must relearn basic motor skills, his Wisconsin family says. Liam Klaver had ...

(WTMJ) - An 11-year-old Wisconsin boy is relearning how to walk and talk after waking up from a coma following complications from what was supposed to be a routine tonsillectomy. Liam Klaver’s ...

Background and objective: Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are effective analgesics but their use during tonsillectomy is controversial because of the risk of postoperative bleeding.

Thanks to his work, we can surmise that a tonsillectomy probably was an agonizing procedure for the patient: “Celsus applied ...

However, recent trials showed that pain after tonsillectomy is significant and persists relatively unchanged for the first 5-7 days. [1,2,11,12,13] Moreover, post-tonsillectomy pain lasts on ...