[Lingual tonsillitis. Report of 3 cases and literature review].

Lingual tonsillitits is a relatively uncommon pathology that affects specially patients with previous palatine tonsillectomy and its clinical behaviour is even more notorious than an acute tonsillitis. We report 3 cases hospitalized by our ENT Department analysing the initial symptoms, complementary tests, treatment and clinical evolution. In one of the patients that diagnosis probably was secondary to a complication due to an infectious mononucleosis and finally he was operated by surgical cauterization the lingual tonsils.