Zakirullah.
Post-Tonsillectomy and Adenotonsillectomy Morbidity and Complications at District Headquarter Hospital Daggar.
J Ayub Med Coll Abottabad Jan ;13(3):3-6.

Background: Tonsillectomy or adenotonsillectolny is one of the commonly performed operations in ENT practice. Morbidity & complications associated with tonsillectomy and adenotonsillectomy include severe otalgia, pyrexia, odynophagia and haemorrhage. Methods: A prospective study was undertaken from April 1996 to April 2001 to report the experience regarding postoperative morbidity/complications in tonsillectomy and/or adenotonsillectomy. A total of 1500 patients undergoing tonsillectomy or adenotonsillectomy for chronic/recurrent tonsillitis or adenotonsillar hypertrophy were included. These patients received antibiotic in the form of amoxycillin and clavulanic acid and non-salicylate analgesics for 7 days postoperatively. 100 patients were lost to follow up. Results: Seventy percent of patients were female and thirty percent males with maximum number of patients between the age of 11-22 years. Postoperative complications developed in 25 out of 1400 patients, 14 of them developed post-operative bleeding and 9 developed postoperative infection. Conclusions: It was found that postoperative morbidity / complications were less in this study with regard to secondary haemorrhage, operative site infection, intensity & duration of postoperative pain, postoperative pyrexia and time for return to normal activities.

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