A Comparative Clinicopathologic Analysis of Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy Cases: A Retrospective Study

Year 2020, Volume: 6 Issue: 3, 186 - 193, 02.10.2020

Büşra Yaprak Bayrak , Fatih Mutlu

https://doi.org/10.30934/kusbed.693112

Abstract

Objective: In this retrospective study, we aimed to determine the rate of malignancy detected in patients who underwent tonsillectomy, adenoidectomy or adenotonsillectomy in our clinic, and to correlate the clinical findings of adults and children by giving their histopathological analysis.
Methods: Histopathological specimens of 288 adenoidectomy, tonsillectomy and adenotonsillectomy cases operated in our clinic between years of 2017-2019 were collected retrospectively and re-evaluated with clinical data.
Results: Malignancy was suspected clinically in 12.8% (n=37) of all cases, and most of them (n=33) were in tonsillectomy group. Although reactive lymphoid hyperplasia was a common diagnosis among all cases (92.7%), 11 (3.8%) patients were diagnosed as a benign/malign neoplasm. The malignancy rate among all cases was found to be 2.1% (6/288), among tonsillectomy cases was 8.8% (6/68). All malignancies were detected among tonsillectomy cases in adults.
Conclusion: This retrospective analysis of adenotonsillar surgeries correlated with histopathological findings showed that the incidence of tonsil neoplasm in adult patients is higher than the previously published data. In the tonsillar tissues presenting with a surgical indication of clinical suspicion for malignancy such as ulceration and necrosis, and of enlargement of tonsils, a histopathological evaluation are obviously warranted. These results are in agreement with that a routine histopathological examination is needed to be regardless of the clinically presence of high malignancy suspicion prior to tonsillectomy in adults.

An Erratum to this article was published on 05 January 2021. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/kusbed/issue/59476/854715 

Keywords

adenoidectomy, neoplasm, pathology, tonsillectomy

Supporting Institution

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Project Number

GOKAEK-2020 / 2.04 - 2020/8

Thanks

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Tonsillektomi ve Adenoidektomi Yapılan Olguların Retrospektif İncelenmesi ve Karşılaştırmalı Klinikopatolojik Analizi

Abstract

Amaç: Bu retrospektif çalışmayla, kliniğimizde tonsillektomi, adenoidektomi veya adenotonsillektomi uygulanan hastalarda malignite oranını saptamayı, yetişkinlerin ve çocukların histopatolojik analizlerini yaparak klinik bulgularıyla ilişkilendirmeyi amaçladık.
Yöntem: 2017-2019 yılları arasında kliniğimizde opere edilen 288 adenoidektomi, tonsillektomi ve adenotonsillektomi olgusunun histopatolojik örnekleri, retrospektif olarak toplandı ve klinik verilerle tekrar değerlendirildi.
Bulgular: Tüm olguların %12,8'inde (n=37) malignite şüphesi vardı ve bunların çoğu (n=33) tonsillektomi grubunda idi. Reaktif lenfoid hiperplazi, tüm olgularda (%92,7) en sık tanı olmasına rağmen, 11 (%3,8) olguya benign / malign neoplazm tanısı konuldu. Tüm olgularda malignite oranı %2,1 (6/288) iken, tonsillektomi yapılan olgularda %8,8 (6/68) bulundu. Tüm maligniteler, sadece yetişkinlerde, tonsillektomi yapılan olgularda saptandı.
Sonuç: Adenotonsiller ameliyatların histopatolojik raporlarla korelasyonu yapılan bu retrospektif analiz, erişkin hastalarda, tonsil neoplazm insidansının, daha önce yayınlanan verilerden daha yüksek olduğunu göstermiştir. Ülserasyon, nekroz, tonsiller büyüme gibiklinik malignite şüpheli, cerrahi endikasyonu olan tonsil dokularında, histopatolojik değerlendirme yapılması gerekliliği açıkça görülmektedir. Bu sonuçlar, yetişkinlerde, tonsillektomi öncesi, klinik olarak yüksek malignite şüphesi olmasına bakılmaksızın, rutin bir histopatolojik incelemeye ihtiyaç duyulduğu gerçeğiyle uyumludur.

Bu makale için 05-01-2021 tarihinde bir düzeltme yayınlandı. https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/kusbed/issue/59476/854715 

Keywords

adenoidektomi, neoplazm, patoloji, tonsillektomi

Project Number

GOKAEK-2020 / 2.04 - 2020/8

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