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A. LEWY, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1930;11(2):227-240.

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FORTY YEARS OF THE RADICAL MASTOID OPERATION. DR. OTTO MAYER and DR. H. BEYER.

(The following abstract was made by Dr. A. Lewy partly in collaboration with Dr. Samuel Salinger.)

Kuester was the first (1880) to state the idea of the removal of all diseased tissue — the first to advocate removal of the posterior meatal wall in order to gain access to the tympanic cavity and remove diseased tissue there. Bergman, in his first system of surgery, was the first to advocate the removal of the superior as well as the posterior osseous wall. Both these men were general surgeons and the otologists feared the invasion of their field by them. Wolf, in 1877, had suggested opening the tympanum via the posterior wall, but he attracted no attention. Hartmann made anatomic studies, but could not figure out how this operation could be carried out without danger to the facial . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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