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The effect of tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy on neutrophil chemotaxis
L Sennaroglu1, M Onerci, G Hascelik
1Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hacettepe University Medical Faculty, Ankara, Turkey.
The Laryngoscope
|December 1, 1993
Abstract:
Although tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy are common surgical procedures, the effects of these operations on the immune system have not been thoroughly determined. Our data on neutrophil chemotaxic functions in a group of 17 patients with chronic tonsillitis and adenoid hypertrophy show that chronic tonsillitis and adenoid hypertrophy impair neutrophil chemotaxic functions and that there is a subsequent normalization of these values following tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy.