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FRANCIS W. WHITE, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1930;11(4):415-425.

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Several years ago, I undertook the partial submucous or modified submucous resection of the nasal septum in children with a view to relieving or ameliorating the symptoms incident to mechanical defects still present in the nose after the removal of the tonsils and adenoids. Knowing full well the antipathy felt by competent operators toward disturbing the nasal septum in persons under 15 or 16 years of age, I performed the operations conservatively. As no unfavorable results were seen following conservative lines, more and more tissue was removed at later operations until a considerable amount was taken out, and the results in fifty patients were published two years later. The paper was favorably received, and with the encouragement of my confrères and because of the continued improvement seen in the patients, the procedure has been carried out until the number of case records is now more than a hundred. The patients . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Submitted for publication, Sept. 9, 1929.

Read before the Section on Laryngology, Otology and Rhinology at the Eightieth Annual Session of the American Medical Association, Portland, Ore., July 10, 1929.

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