WebMD explains the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of a peritonsillar abscess, a potentially dangerous infection that forms next to the tonsils.

A peritonsillar abscess is a bacterial infection that usually begins as a complication of untreated strep throat or tonsillitis. A pus-filled pocket forms near one of your tonsils. It can cause ...

However, nearly 3 weeks of symptoms — in addition to the absence of findings characteristic of an abscess on physical examination and CT — makes tonsillar infection or abscess an unlikely ...

In unilateral or bilateral abscesses, the patient may present with a muffled voice, progressive odynophagia, dysphagia, referred otalgia, trismus, oral pooling of saliva, drooling and fever.1, 6, 8 In ...

Peritonsillar abscesses form around the tonsils. They usually occur as a complication of tonsillitis and are often caused by the same bacteria. Learn about the causes, symptoms, and treatments of ...

Ozbek C, Aygenc E, Unsal E, Ozdem C. Peritonsillar abscess: a comparison of outpatient i.m. clindamycin and inpatient i.v. ampicillin/sulbactam following needle aspiration. Ear Nose Throat J ...

Background: Recent studies suggest that tonsilloliths are clinically related to halitosis and tonsillar abscess. Based on our empirical knowledge, tonsilloliths are relatively commonly encountered ...

Clinicians have successfully used antibiotics and steroids, instead of an aerosol-generating procedure, to treat a COVID-19-positive man's peritonsillar abscess. Details were published on September 7 ...

Medically reviewed by Renee Nilan, MD Peritonsillar abscess, also known as quinsy, is a bacterial infection that causes pus to collect near the tonsils and the back of the throat. It usually ...

From your description this sounds like tonsil stones (tonsilloliths), which affect up to 10% of the population or more. Some studies of CT scans done of the neck for other reasons have noted them ...