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A Summary of the Bibliographic Material Available in the Field of Otolaryngology

LARYNGEAL TUBERCULOSIS

REVIEW OF LITERATURE FOR 1928-1929

GEORGE B. WOOD, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1930;11(2):217-223.

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Primary laryngeal tuberculosis in children is so exceedingly rare that its rarity influences the examiner greatly when he is making a differential diagnosis of a suspected laryngeal lesion.

Richter¹ reported an interesting case of laryngeal tuberculosis occurring in a child, aged 15 months. The disease ran an acute course, there being only four weeks of illness from the first symptom to the fatal ending. A careful postmortem examination showed an ulcerated condition of the larynx which, on histologic examination, proved to be tuberculous. The paratracheal and laryngeal lymph nodes showed early stages of tuberculosis and there was some tuberculous ulceration in the intestinal tract, with involvement of the regionary lymph nodes. On the other hand, the lungs and the bronchial lymph nodes were absolutely free from any evidence of tuberculosis, as were also the liver and the spleen. Richter expressed his belief that this was a case of simultaneous and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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