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. This case ...

A peritonsillar abscess is a collection of pus that forms near one of the tonsils. This type of abscess forms when a bacterial infection spreads from an infected tonsil to the surrounding area.

Advanced practice providers (APPs) can be trained to perform transnasal endoscopy (TNE) with a single-use ultra-slim gastroscope with only topical anesthesia, a pilot study showed. “Our study ...

A 68-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with dizziness and shortness of breath with exertion.… Each interactive case presents an evolving patient history and a series of ...

Background Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) affects 15–25% of children and adolescents in the United States. The diagnosis of GERD in children is complex as reported symptoms or symptom ...

In some cases, though, these infections lead to complications that cause irritation on one side of the throat. A peritonsillar abscess, or quinsy, is an infection of the head and neck that causes pus ...

Lockjaw from TMJ disorders may come and go, even after the initial pain fades. Infections around your mouth or jaw muscles, such as a peritonsillar abscess, can affect the jaw's movement. When this ...

A surgeon pops a huge abscess on a man's jaw and captured the moment on video. Doctor Osama Makkia spent 20 minutes scrapping the pus out of his patient's abscess - which he admits is one of the ...

The objective of this library is to provide a simple instrument for dealing with ICD-10-CM codes in Python. It provides ways to check whether a code exists, find its ancestors and descendants, see the ...

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