Removing the tonsils of children with mild or moderate throat infections is more expensive and has fewer health benefits than simply watching and waiting, Dutch researchers said on Monday In a study involving 300 children aged 2-8 advised to have their tonsils out, those who avoided surgery had fewer annual visits to doctors Tonsils are masses of tissue at the back of the throat. "Surgery resulted in a significant increase in costs without realising relevant clinical benefit," Erik Buskens, an epidemiologist, wrote in wrote in the Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery |
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