PMID: 2092734Nov 1, 1990Paper

Report of a case of tonsillar calculus

Acta otorrinolaringológica española
M R García RodríguezJ F García Rodríguez

Abstract

We describe the case of a patient with odynophagia without treatment response. The pharynx exploration shows a stony tumor in vertex of left palatine amygdala which was extirpated. The laboratory analysis signs calcium and oxalic calculus. The anatomopathological study of the amygdala bed biopsy informs like absent of malignancy images.

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