[Thyroxin levels in blood of children with chronic decompensated tonsillitis before and after tonsillectomy].

Blood thyroxine levels were measured using radioimmunoassay in 82 children aged 3-14 with chronic decompensated tonsillitis (CDT) before tonsillectomy and 7 weeks, 2-3 months and 3-10 years after it. This hormone levels appeared higher in boys. In CDT with quinsy recurrences combination with metatonsiliar complications T4 existed in rather high concentrations. Seven days after tonsillectomy thyroxinemia lowered and 2-3 months later it returned to the baseline level. Long-term follow-up T4 concentrations in the blood were lower than preoperative ones in senior children (boys, as a rule) and in combined forms of chronic tonsillitis decompensation.