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Peritonsillitis (PT) is defined as cellulitis in peritonsillar tissue without pus. The pathogenesis of peritonsillar infections is controversial.To explore whether minor salivary glands are involved in the development of PT and to identify clinical findings that predict the evolution of PT to peritonsillar abscess (PTA).We included 146 adult patients treated for acute tonsillitis (AT;The PT group without tonsillar findings had lower S-CRP than the PT group with tonsillar findings (Elevated S-Amyl in the PT/PTA group without tonsillar findings suggests that minor salivary glands are sometimes involved in the development of peritonsillar infections.

Williams syndrome (WS) is a relatively rare multisystem neurodevelopmental disorder caused by a hemizygous deletion of contiguous genes on chromosome 7q11.23. Although WS does not predispose carriers to cancers, alterations of chromosome 7 are common in several human neoplasms. We report here a patient with WS and two different cancers, Burkitt lymphoma and Ewing sarcoma. Array-CGH analysis of the patient blood revealed a constitutive 1.4 million base pair deletion at 7q11.23, compatible with WS diagnosis. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2014; 61:1877–1879. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Williams syndrome (WS) is a relatively rare multisystem neurodevelopmental disorder caused by a hemizygous deletion of contiguous genes on chromosome 7q11.23. Although WS does not predispose carriers to cancers, alterations of chromosome 7 are common in several human neoplasms. We report here a patient with WS and two different cancers, Burkitt lymphoma and Ewing sarcoma. Array-CGH analysis of the patient blood revealed a constitutive 1.4 million base pair deletion at 7q11.23, compatible with WS diagnosis.