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GEORGE M. COATES, M.D.; MATTHEW S. ERSNER, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1930;11(2):158-168.

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Clinical experience has firmly established the relationship of rhinologic disturbances to asthma. The generally prevailing view is that certain types of asthma are affected by disease of the upper respiratory system, and it is that which is predominately concerned. That other regions are concerned is often manifested either through toxic conditions, allergic phenomena or through reflex actions. Since we are concerned only with that form of asthma which is caused by or associated with a rhinologic disturbance, we shall therefore omit all other causes.

The importance of a nasal factor in asthma can be gaged from several considerations. We have observed that asthma is often associated with vasomotor rhinitis, recurrent rhinitis, hay-fever, nasal polypi and similar conditions. In analyzing a group of cases, we have found that in about 75 per cent nasal polypi were secondary to a pathologic process in the maxillary sinus, and a fair percentage of these . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Submitted for publication, Aug. 30, 1929.

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