Potential of the Novel PTA Score to Identify Patients with Peritonsillar Inflammation Profiting from Medical Treatment

Table 1

Patient characteristics due to diagnosis. Values of significance by Kruskal-Wallis test. d, days; PTA, peritonsillar abscess; y, years.

Variable	Frequency, number (%, range)			value
	Acute tonsillitis	Peritonsillitis	Peritonsillar abscess
Age, median (range), y	25 (13–65)	32 (7–66)	32 (10–83)	0.150
Sex				0.860
Male	11 (44)	7 (47)	19 (53)
Female	13 (56)	8 (53)	17 (47)
Therapy approach				<0.001
Only medical treatment	24 (100)	6 (40)	0 (0)
Incision/aspiration	0	9 (60)	16 (44)
Tonsillectomy	0	1 (7)	29 (81)
Hospitalization, median (range), d	4 (2–8)	5 (0–11)	7 (2–26)	<0.001
PTA score value				<0.001
≤2	24 (100)	11 (73)	3 (8)
>2	0 (0)	4 (27)	33 (92)