Some Recent Advances in Endocrinology

Effectiveness of Corticosteroid Treatment in Acute Pharyngitis: A Systemic Review of the Literature

“…2 It soon became clear that although most patients rapidly improved as their inflammation subsided, some did much worse because this improvement reflected a decreased immune response. Severe outcomes from pharyngitis are rare, and none of the studies reviewed were adequately powered to find them, but a few extra cases of retropharyngeal or even peritonsilar abscess would completely outweigh the small improvements in pain scores caused by steroids.…”