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April 1927

Progress in Otolaryngology: TUMORS OF THE NOSE AND THROAT: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

Author Affiliations

ROCHESTER, MINN.
From the Section on Laryngology, Oral and Plastic Surgery, Mayo Clinic. This review consists of the more important papers that have been published from October, 1925, to October, 1926, inclusive. It has been impossible to review certain foreign articles and also articles published in this country during the last three months of 1926 on account of the short time allotted for the preparation of this summary. Most of the papers have been reported by simply suggesting their contents; further details may be obtained by consulting the bibliography.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1927;5(4):352-356. doi:10.1001/archotol.1927.00600010374010
Abstract

Huizinga1 reports three cases of retention cysts situated laterally in the vestibule of the nose. The cysts were removed through an incision underneath the upper lip. Microscopic examintion showed them to be lined with flat squamous cell epithelium and filled with cholesterin. Of the sixty cases that I reviewed from the literature, the patients were almost all women; however, among my own three patients one was a man.

ANTRUM

I have reported the end-results of cautery and radium treatment of ninety-seven patients who were suffering from malignant tumor of the antrum, from 1917 to 1924.2 Of the seventy patients with primary tumors of the antrum, twenty-one (30 per cent) were still living from one year and three months to eight years after treatment, and of twentyseven treated for secondary tumor of the antrum, fourteen (51.8 per cent) were still living from one year and three months to

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