Morales-Cadena GM, Jacinto-Gómez RA, Jaurrieta-Hinojos ND, Fonseca-Chávez MG

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ABSTRACT

Background: Smoking has a local and systemic inflammatory and immunological influence, alters the normal bacterial flora and produces a chronic inflammation of the tissues adjacent to the oral cavity and the oropharynx.
Objective: To analyze if there is a relationship between the origin of the periamigdalin abscesses and the history of smoking.
Material and Method: A retrospective, observational and longitudinal study in which the files of patients admitted to the Hospital Español de México with the diagnosis of peritonsillar abscess in the period between January 2012 to August 2018 were reviewed. Groups of patients for study: the group with smoking and the group without smoking.
Results: Respect for symptoms and signs, a statistically significant relationship with the history of smoking was not obtained; similarly, no relationship of smoking history was found with the following variables: antibiotic use before hospital admission, month of admission, days of hospital stay and days of evolution.
Conclusion: In the present work we cannot reconcile a clear relation between smoking and the development of peritonsillar abscesses; the hypothesis that indicate this condition is secondary to recurrent respiratory tract infections and the occlusion of the minor salivary glands of Weber in adult adults continues to prevail. Correspondencia Gabriel Mauricio Morales Cadena moralescadena@gmail.com