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Peritonsillar Abscess

"Peritonsillar Abscess" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

An accumulation of purulent material in the area between the PALATINE TONSIL and its capsule.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Peritonsillar Abscess" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Peritonsillar Abscess" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 11 publications over 8 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 1999 and 2014 and 2022
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.