Either of two masses of lymphatic tissue one on each side of the oral pharynx.
1The palatine tonsil is the most important element of Waldeyer's ring as a defense mechanism against various microorganisms.
2We describe the case of a 37-year old male who presented with a schwannoma in his right palatine tonsil.
3We here report a rare case of AITL involving palatine tonsil as primary site and give a review of the literature.
4In the palatine tonsil, the infected cells were not found in the stratified squamous epithelium that is adjacent to the pharynx.
5The mean epithelial surface area of the paired palatine tonsil was 7.14 cm(2) and that of the pharyngeal tonsil was 23.5 cm(2).
6The recurrent and chronic inflammation of palatine tonsils sometimes results in hypertrophy.
7With laryngoscopy, there was a marked outgrowth of the bilateral palatine tonsils proximal to the vocal cord.
8The musk shrew, Suncus murinus, is one of the primitive mammals and has a pair of palatine tonsils.
9We did not observe any reactivity of CD98 in nasopharyngeal tonsil epithelium and lymphoid cells of either nasopharyngeal or palatine tonsils.
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