Peritonsillar abscess (PTA) is a common complication to acute tonsillitis. The treatment is drainage of the abscess, but many needle aspirations are unsuccessful due to a low diagnostic accuracy based on oral examination only. In this article, we describe how intraoral ultrasound can be added to improve the diagnostic work-up of PTA and present a novel technique for ultrasound-guided aspiration of PTA, using a small pencil-shaped transducer. We present our first clinical experiences with this technique and describe how it could be integrated in a clinical setting to guide safe and successful needle aspirations of PTA.
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Todsen, T., Stage, M. G., & Hahn, C. H. (2018). A novel technique for intraoral ultrasound-guided aspiration of Peritonsillar Abscess. Diagnostics, 8(3). https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics8030050
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