Tatalaksana ulkus yang disebabkan oleh pecahnya abses peritonsilar Management of ulcer due to rupture of peritonsillar abcess

• Main Authors: Astrid Palmasari, Priyo Hadi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hasanuddin University 2011-10-01
• Series: Journal of Dentomaxillofacial Science
• Subjects: peritonsillar abcess, head and neck infection, benzydamine HCl
• Online Access: http://jdmfs.org/index.php/jdmfs/article/view/278
• ISSN: 2503-0817; 2503-0825

Peritonsillar abcess is a infection of head and neck commonly seen. This infection is caused by infection organisme such as Streptococcus pyogenes (Group A Beta-Hemolitik streptococcus), Staphylococcus aureus, Haemophilus influenzae, Fusobacterium, Prevotella, Porphyromonas, and Peptostreptococcus spp. by the spreading of anaerob organism to one of loose aerolar space around pharynx and cause the abcess and penentrate to the tonsillar capsule but which is still in pharynx constrictor muscles boundary. This paper reports a male of 36 years old patient with chief complaint of ulcer on the hard palate accompanied with tonsillar swelling that made difficulty in swallowing. The diagnosis was ulceration due to peritonsillar abcess rupture. Amoxycyllin antibiotic, and benzydamine HCl gargle was precribed to cure the ulcers.