Abstract
The authors performed a retrospective analysis of documentation for patient who had undergone tonsillectomy at the Ear, Nose and Cervix Clinic in Hradec Králové during 1992?2001. The cohort consisted of 1492 patients, 841 of them being women and 651 men.
The mean age of the patients was 22 years, median 19 years. All operations in the period of observation were performed by the classical extracapsular technique with stopping preoperation bleeding by bipolar electrocoagulation or ligature.
The mean period of hospitalization was five days. Effects of other observed factors on postoperation bleeding were statistically insignificant.
The processing of the risk factors may be used in decision making concerning the duration of hospitalization of patients after tonsillectomy.