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Tonsillar Hypertrophy in Childhood

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The subepithelial and submucosal lymphatic tissues extend from the Eustachian tube to the tongue root. These coalesce into individual masses in the oropharynx to form the tonsils. Waldeyer’s Lymphatic Ring is a collection of other pharyngeal lymphatic structures, including the anterior lingual tonsil (tonsilla lingualis), the upper lateral tubarian tonsils (tonsilla tubaria), the upper posterior pharyngeal tonsil (tonsilla pharyngea), and the lateral palatine tonsils (tonsilla palatina). Waldeyer first described this organization of lymphatics in 1884 [1, 2, 3].

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  1. Section of Otorhinolaryngology, Elazığ Fethi Sekin City Hospital, Elazığ, Turkey

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Düzer, S., Susaman, N., Winkler, A.A. (2022). Tonsillar Hypertrophy in Childhood. In: Cingi, C., Arısoy, E.S., Bayar Muluk, N. (eds) Pediatric ENT Infections. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80691-0_21

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