[The new approaches to the treatment of inflammatory pharyngeal pathology].

The authors present a detailed characteristic of various topical medications applied for the treatment of tonsillopharyngitis with special reference to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. These data give evidence of the advantages of such preparations over other pharmaceutical products for the topical treatment. It is concluded that the application of topical anti-inflammatory preparations should be a major component of the treatment of inflammatory pharyngeal pathology regardless of its etiology, either viral or bacterial.