2016 Volume 29 Issue 1 Pages 133-137
The patient was a 32-years-old man who had been diagnosed as having with type 2 von Willebrand disease at 8 years of age. He was referred to our hospital with an unusual persistent sensation of pharyngeal and bilateral tonsillar swelling.
We successfully performed a tonsillectomy using a coblation system, with little bleeding and minimal use of blood preparations. In this paper, we describe the use of blood preparations and the precautionary steps to be taken in cases of tonsillectomy for patients with hematopathy, which is likely to pose difficulty with hemostasis; we also include a description of the characteristics of coblation, a new surgical procedure that has recently been disseminated in Japan.
