Tonsillectomy, also known as tonsil removal surgery, is a common procedure. Hundreds of thousands of children in the United States have their tonsils removed each year. But like any surgery, there are ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who have their tonsils removed using an "intracapsular" technique -- which removes at least 90 percent of tonsil tissue, but spares the tonsil capsule -- seem to ...

Within hours of having her tonsils out last February, Zelda Williams was home eating noodles by the bowlful. The then 3-year-old had a new kind of tonsil surgery, called intracapsular tonsillectomy, ...

Roughly 290,000 tonsillectomies are performed in children under 15 years old every year in the United States. Though the tonsil hospital closed decades ago, tonsillectomies still remain one of the ...

A large study has found that removal of the tonsils as a child can mean that the individual is more susceptible to chest infections as an adult. The study appeared in the latest issue of the journal ...

Tonsil and adenoid removal associated with long-term risks of respiratory, allergic and infectious diseases Removing tonsils and adenoids in childhood increases the long-term risk of respiratory, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Children with sleep-disordered breathing had lower health care use after tonsil removal. Those who had surgery ...

A Michigan woman is detailing the shock she felt after learning her tonsils had grown back decades after getting them removed. Katy Golden, from Detroit, was just 5 years old when her mother took her ...

figured when she got her tonsils removed, the surgery would be painful but rather unremarkable. "I figured they went in with a knife and probably just cut them out," the 34-year-old Daly City, Calif., ...

A young girl died after developing a rare complication following a tonsil removal surgery, drawing attention to a ...

The surgical removal of the appendix and tonsils are known formally as “appendectomies” and “tonsillectomies,” respectively. These are common procedures in the United States, but recent research on ...