[Pronounced tonsil stone in a crypt of the left tonsilla palatina - Radiological findings on panoramic tomography and digital volume tomography].

Tonsilloliths (tonsil stones) are ectopic calcifications that can form in the crypts of the tonsilla palatina (palatine tonsil), the tonsilla lingualis (lingual tonsil) and also the tonsilla pharyngealis (pharyngeal tonsil). The exact aetiology and pathogenesis leading to the formation of these tonsil stones is still unknown.