An examination on a cohort of 142 patients was conducted to find out whether
tonsillectomy a chaud as standard therapy is in accordance with the recent
medical state of the art or if patients could profit of a differential therapy
or if other equal therapies would exist. The methods incision and drainage or
needle aspiration offer some but not decisive advantages. Merely the loss of a perhaps still
immuncompetent organ, the operation risk, the necessesity of constantly
prepared surgical facilities, the higher costs of the tonsillectomy a chaud
and bleeding complications make the needle aspiration a method which should be
considered in a differential therapy.
