Abstract
 A69-year-old woman presented with a one-year history of dysphagia and a hard overgrowth of the right palatine tonsil visible in oral examination. Computerized Tomography scan showed a big calcified lesion inside the tonsil not seen in a pharyngoscopy. Tonsillectomy was performed and a giant tonsillolith was found inside the resected piece. The calculus was 3x2x2.3 cm and with an irregular-pyramidal shape.
Giant tonsillolith in palatine tonsil: report of one case
 
  Key words
 
 
  
   Tonsillolith
  
 
 
  
   Calculus
  
 
 
  
   Tonsil
  
 
Abstract
 A69-year-old woman presented with a one-year history of <dis>dysphagia</dis> and a hard overgrowth of the right palatine tonsil visible in oral examination.
Computerized Tomography scan showed a big calcified lesion inside the tonsil not seen in a pharyngoscopy.
Tonsillectomy was performed and a giant tonsillolith was found inside the resected piece.
The calculus was 3x2x2.3 cm and with an irregular-pyramidal shape.
Normal tonsillar tissue with many colonies of Actionomyces inside the tonsillar crypts was the definitive pathological feature.
Abstract
 A69-year-old woman presented with a one-year history of dysphagia and a hard overgrowth of the right palatine tonsil visible in oral examination.
Computerized Tomography scan showed a big calcified lesion inside the tonsil not seen in a pharyngoscopy.
Tonsillectomy was performed and a giant tonsillolith was found inside the resected piece.
The calculus was 3x2x2.3 cm and with an irregular-pyramidal shape.
Normal tonsillar tissue with many colonies of Actionomyces inside the tonsillar crypts was the definitive pathological feature.
Abstract
 A69-year-old woman presented with a one-year history of <dis>dysphagia</dis> and a hard overgrowth of the right palatine tonsil visible in oral examination. Computerized Tomography scan showed a big calcified lesion inside the tonsil not seen in a pharyngoscopy. Tonsillectomy was performed and a giant tonsillolith was found inside the resected piece. The calculus was 3x2x2.3 cm and with an irregular-pyramidal shape.
dysphagia
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