“God works in mysterious ways.” He later had two surgeries to remove his tonsils and adenoids, the first when he was about 6. The adenoids grew back, prompting the need for a second surgery ...

Obstructive sleep apnea occurs when the upper airway patency is restricted or collapses during inspiration. Such collapse is a dynamic process that involves interactions between sleep state, upper ...

Adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) is a rare kind of cancer. It usually starts in the glands that make your saliva. There are four glands under your tongue. You have two submandibular and two ...

Adenoidectomy is surgery to remove the adenoids, small lumps of soft tissue located at the back of the nose that are of the immune system. And bilaterial tympanocentesis invovles puncturing the ...

The tube opens at the end of the nose where children also have adenoid tissue which obstruct the normal function of the tube. Children are most likely to have fluid in the middle ear between two to ...

On examination, he had widespread follicular papules with 90% body surface involvement, nontender inguinal lymphadenopathy, and leonine facies (Figure 1A). He had seen 2 dermatologists who had ...

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These children start to develop a typical facial morphology known as the adenoid facies, wherein child has an open mouth even while breathing at rest or may have a noisy breathing, dull look on the ...

Conclusion: Obesity, family passive smoking, a family history of snoring, allergic rhinitis, asthma, tonsil hypertrophy, and adenoid hypertrophy may be potential risk factors for pediatric OSAS.