You Decide: Strep & Throat Abscess
May 20, 2008 by DrReynolds · 2 Comments
If you discuss Strep throat long enough someone will eventually bring up the potential complication of a throat abscess. The fancy medical name for this is peritonsillar abscess (or in the U.K. – Quincy). Basically this is when you have a large collection of pus in one of your tonsils. In the era of ready access to the ER, surgeons, and antibiotics this is generally Read more
