Abstract
A femal, aged 2, complained of a dyspnea in her sleep. Her both palatine tonsils with papillary elevation of various size on the surface were noted. Histological examination of bilateral exercised palatine tonsils revealed lymphoid hyperplasia, increased connective tissue in its septum and slightly findings of the chronic inflammation.
We suspect the papillary hypertrophy to be one of the malformation of the palatine tonsils, and papillary formation may be irritable to the tonsil tissue. Inflammative stimmulation to the tonsil tissue is not a main cause of the papillary hypertrophy of tonsil, but papillary form of tonsil may easily follow the inflammation.
In Japan, only 29 cases of papillary hypertrophy of tonsils have been reported. The nresent case was the vounzest in them.
