Figure 5: Diagnosis of “Hypertrophy of the palatal tonsils with hypertrophy of the pharyngeal tonsil” (ICD-10: J35.3)
The graphs indicate the annual prevalence (y-axis) for male and female patients (x-axis). Between 2000 and 2013, the diagnostic frequency decreased by factor 1.53. The numbers for male and female patients were nearly identical.