Tonsils, everyone is born with them, but what do they do? “Nobody really knows exactly how they work or what their function is,” says Dr. Ryan Winters, a board-certified Otolaryngologist Head and Neck ...

CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwired - Oct 8, 2014) - Tonsils are an important part of the immune system and are the first line of defense against infection. The masses of tissue are packed with lymphocytes, and ...

Remember when having a tonsillectomy was a childhood rite of passage? But then, for a number of years, we didn’t hear much about tonsillectomies. Now, pediatricians are talking more about ...

All of our pediatric tonsillectomy patients experiencing post-operative bleeding from 2005-2010 were identified. The 91 cases were matched with 151 controls that underwent tonsillectomy by the same ...