Pediatric obstructive sleep apnea occurs when your child's airways are blocked during sleep. Learn about symptoms and treatments for this sleep disorder.

Like the tonsils, the adenoids are made up of lymphatic tissue. They lie at the back of the throat behind the soft part of the roof of your mouth. They are connected to the ear through the ...

Once removed, other lymphoid tissue, including the actual lymph nodes, can take over the job of the tonsils. Adenoids. Situated in the back of the nose where the nasal passages meet the mouth and ...

The investigators randomly assigned half of the children with these issues to have their tonsils and adenoids removed, and the other half to undergo ‘watchful waiting’ over a 12 month period.

A team of researchers led by Dr. Hirotsugu Oda at the University of Cologne's CECAD Cluster of Excellence for Aging Research ...

When Weinberg freshman Savannah Hsu enrolled at Northwestern, she never imagined being sick for the first five months. She ...

The team further observed that the development of lymphoid germinal centres - the specialized microstructures in adenoids ...

She was first diagnosed with sleep apnea in 7th grade, at age 12, after having her adenoids removed twice. Her symptoms became more pronounced during her freshman year of college. Matina found ...

Hemolytic streptococci are common in the nasopharynx and nasopharyngeal vegetations. From nasopharyngeal swabs and the surface of the adenoids hemolytic streptococci were recovered in 55%; from the ...

I n recent weeks people with annoying adenoids and tape measures have explained that the average width of the modern car is ...