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It would be much better if you would search on web for tonsil cyst pictures, that could help you understand what is tonsil cyst like. But in written description, it is a mass of pharyngeal lymphoid tissue with an external lining of stratified squamous mucosa, lying between the arches of the palatoglossal and palatopharyngeal muscles and just superficial to the superior constrictor muscle : ) Understand? Deep in the tonsil there are crypts lined by squamous epithelium containing debris composed of desquamated epithelium, bacteria and fungal organisms. The lymphoid tissue surrounding the crypts has nodules, often with germinal centers. Deep in the crypts the epithelial layer becomes blurred since the lymphocytes of the tonsil invade it. Tara…
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