THE MATERIAL abstracted below represents the articles listed in the "Quarterly Cumulative Index Medicus" for the first half of 1949, which at the time was held up because of publication difficulties, and has just recently been issued. The material available in the "Index" for the second half of 1949 was abstracted and published in the A. M. A. Archives of Otolaryngology53:200-231 (Feb.) 1951. The latter also included all of the articles published in the Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology, the A. M. A. Archives of Otolaryngology, and the Laryngoscope for the entire year.
ANATOMY—DIAGNOSIS
The size and shape of the skull are determined in large measure by the development of the brain. Irregularities and asymmetry may be traced to atrophy of a portion of the brain, on the one hand, or to expansion due to tumor, on the other. The sinuses may thus be affected, as shown