[Clinical-morphological variations of chronic oropharyngitis (author's transl)]

Non-specific chronic inflammatory changes of the oropharyngeal posterior wall show a considerable abundance of variations. An own respectively reorganised classification of the various clinical pictures in chronic oropharyngitis is proposed comprising altogether 8 forms. The micromorphological characteristics of these particular variations which showed repeating lymphoepithelial interactions in the infantile hyperplastic oropharyngitis with definable activity stages have been examined. The observed changes of the posterior wall of the pharynx in the infant might be settled in physiological border regions within the frame of general immunological scaffolding. A largely unconcerned epithelium was always imposing in the inflammatory hypertrophic and atrophic oro-pharyngopathies of the adult so that here a rather submucous "lymphatic inflammation picture" is uppermost.