{"title":"[A tonsillolith].","authors":"R Cerný","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The author describes a tonsillolith accidentally detected in a peritonsillar abscess in a 10-year-old girl. The concrement 26 x 4 mm in size, weighing 0.84 g was analyzed by infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction which revealed that it was a dahllite. The surface of the concrement was documented by a scanning microscope. The authors give an account of 29 published cases of tonsilloliths and in the discussion they analyze the causes of development of these concrements in tonsils.</p>","PeriodicalId":75692,"journal":{"name":"Ceskoslovenska otolaryngologie","volume":"39 6","pages":"362-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1990-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Ceskoslovenska otolaryngologie","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The author describes a tonsillolith accidentally detected in a peritonsillar abscess in a 10-year-old girl. The concrement 26 x 4 mm in size, weighing 0.84 g was analyzed by infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction which revealed that it was a dahllite. The surface of the concrement was documented by a scanning microscope. The authors give an account of 29 published cases of tonsilloliths and in the discussion they analyze the causes of development of these concrements in tonsils.