RESUMO
The purpose of this study was to investigate the presence of actinomyces in adenotonsillar disease, recurrent infections, or tonsillar hypertrophy in children. The study included 64 patients, ranging in age from 2 to 16 years, who had elective adenotonsillar surgery to treat either adenotonsillar hypertrophy (36 children) or recurrent adenotonsillitis (28 children). Adenotonsillar Actinomyces was present in 30 children (48%). No statistical significance was found between Actinomyces and recurrent adenotonsillitis or adenotonsillar hypertrophy. However, there was a statistically significant relationship identified between the presence of actinomycosis and age, with a greater occurrence of actinomycosis in children between 5 and 16 years old.
Assuntos
Actinomyces/isolamento & purificação , Tonsila Faríngea/microbiologia , Tonsila Palatina/microbiologia , Tonsila Faríngea/patologia , Adolescente , Fatores Etários , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Humanos , Hipertrofia , Recidiva , Tonsilite/microbiologiaRESUMO
A 33 years-old female with a diagnosis of Kartagener's syndrome was studied. She had a clinical history of chronic sinusitis with nasal obstruction and rhinorrea, and a chronic cough with mucopurulent sputum. A paranasal sinus CT showed hypertrophyc mucosa. A thoracic CT showed a situs inversus and chronic bronchitis with bronchiectasis. The saccharin test lasted 55 minutes. The electron microscopy study showed in a a cross-sectional axoneme a total absence of the outer and inner arm of the 9th outer doublet in over a 100 cilias studied. No others ultrastructure anormalities were observed.
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Dineínas/ultraestrutura , Síndrome de Kartagener/patologia , Adulto , Feminino , HumanosRESUMO
Presentamos el caso de una mujer de 33 años diagnosticada de síndrome de Kartagener. La paciente refiere una historia de rinorrea y obstrucción nasal de larga evolución sugestiva de sinusitis crónica y de tos acompañada de expectoración mucopurulenta. En TC de senos paranasales se aprecia una mucosa sinusal hipertrófica. En TC de tórax de observa un situs inversus y bronquiectasias. El tiempo del test de la sacarina fue de 55 minutos. El estudio ciliar con microscopío electrónico mostró una ausencia completa de los dos brazos del doblete número nueve en más de 100 cilios estudiados. No se observaron otras alteraciones ultraestructurales (AU)
A 33 years-old female with a diagnosis of Kartagener's syndrome was studied. She had a clinical history of chronic sinusitis with nasal obstruction and rhinorrea, and a chronic cough with mucopurulent sputum. A paranasal sinus CT showed hypertrophyc mucosa. A thoracic CT showed a situs inversus and chronic bronchitis with bronchiectasis. The saccharin test lasted 55 minutes. The electron microscopy study showed in a a cross-sectional axoneme a total absence of the outer and inner arm of the 9th outer doublet in over a 100 cilias studied. No others ultrastructure anormalities were observed (AU)