Tonsillectomy increases the risk of retropharyngeal and parapharyngeal abscesses in adults, but not in children: A national cohort study

• So Young Kim ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: So Young Kim, Chanyang Min

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University, Seongnam, Korea

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• Chanyang Min ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: So Young Kim, Chanyang Min

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Hallym Data Science Laboratory, Hallym University College of Medicine, Anyang, Korea

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• Woo Hyun Lee,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, National Police Hospital, Seoul, Korea

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• Hyo Geun Choi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pupen@naver.com

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Hallym University College of Medicine, Anyang, Korea

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1655-9549

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