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Acute lingual tonsillitis: an overlooked cause of severe sore throat in adults who have had a palatine tonsillectomy?

Sasa Janjanin and Drago Prgomet
Med J Aust 2009; 191 (1): . || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb02678.x
Published online: 6 July 2009

To the Editor: We both are ear, nose and throat (ENT) specialists at a tertiary university hospital and cover 1–2 nights of emergency calls each month. Over 8 months in 2008, we witnessed four emergency patients (aged 25–39 years; three men, one woman) who had sore throat, mild fever and pain on swallowing, without any respiratory distress symptoms. One patient presented with “hot potato voice”. All had had a palatine tonsillectomy in childhood.


  • Zagreb Clinical Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia.


Correspondence: s_janjanin@yahoo.com

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