Abstract
In 120 cases, ranging in age from 3 to 16 years, the problem of physiologic and inflammatory hypertrophy of the faucial tonsil has been studied both clinically and histopathologically with the following results.
Between the two types of faucial tonsil hypertrophy, differences in the frequency of habitual involvement, clinical symptoms, complications, family histories, tuberculin reactions, macroscopic findings of the tonsil surface, crypts, superior tonsillar fossa and anterior pillar have been observed. Histopathologically, mild pathological changes of the epithelial cells and lacunae, especially in the deep portion of the latter, might be considered as a physiologic and functional reaction.
