Drainage of Quincy (peritonsillar abscess and abscess of oropharynx and retropharynx) must be done with adequate precautions and ensuring availability of endotracheal tubation, suction and other ...

Clinicians have successfully used antibiotics and steroids, instead of an aerosol-generating procedure, to treat a COVID-19-positive man's peritonsillar abscess. Details were published on September 7 ...

A 29-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of sore throat and peritonsillar swelling and bleeding. Symptoms did not abate with antimicrobial therapy. A diagnosis was made.

To treat a peritonsillar abscess your doctor may chose to drain the pus using a syringe to pull the infection out, or a scalpel to open the lump up.

Quinsy, or peritonsillar abscess, is among the commonest deep infections of the adult head and neck. In contrast to tonsillitis, it occurs in adults and the bacteria responsible are different ...

A WOMAN was left with a gaping hole in her neck after a doctor mistook a “flesh-eating” abscess in her neck for tonsillitis. Stacey Raymond, 32, went to see her doctor with a sore throa… ...

Lemierre syndrome consists of oropharyngeal infection (pharyngitis, tonsillar, or peritonsillar abscess/ mastoiditis) followed by IJT, anaerobic sepsis, and pulmonary septic emboli.

Crissy Rock was rushed to the hospital to have a painful abscess in her throat drained. The Benidorm actress said she had ‘never felt a pain like it’ after being diagnosed with quinsy. The 60 ...