Typically, complaints emerged in patients with a history of acute pharyngitis with acute tonsillitis (Gosselin, 2008). Classic symptoms begin 3-5 days time from onset of symptoms until the occurrence of abscesses around 2-8 days. Patients usually experience odinofagia complaints (pain swallowing) is good, so difficult to do tests because it is difficult to open his mouth and dehydration can also occur, vomiting (regurgitation), halitosis (foeter ex ore), "hot potato voice", a lot of saliva (hipersalivasi), nasal voice (rinolalia) and difficult to open the mouth (trismus), headache, weakness, fever, and swollen glands submandibula with tenderness. Patients also may experience pain when moving the neck (Fachruddin, 2002).
Some patients also have ipsilateral otalgia during swallowing. Trismus, which appears on all of the cases of several degrees of severity, suggesting an inflammation of the lateral wall of the pharynx and muscle pterigoid. Because inflammation of the muscles and cervical lymphadenopathy, sometimes patients also complain of neck pain and limited neck motion. The doctors should be more wary of the PTA, when seeing patients with symptoms of inflammation of the pharynx that persist despite antibiotics have been given adequate preparation (Gosselin, 2008).
On physical examination can be found in various conditions, from acute tonsillitis with unilateral asymmetric pharynx until the occurrence of dehydration and sepsis. Used by most patients experiencing tremendous pain. Oral examination will find eritem mucosa, palate, mole appeared swollen and prominent in the future, may be felt fluctuations. Uvula swollen and pushed to the contralateral side. Swollen tonsils, hiperemis, maybe a lot of detritus and pushed toward the center, front, and bottom (Fachruddin, 2002).
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