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SAMUEL RUFF SKILLERN, JR, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1930;11(4):485-489.

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My brother, Ross Hall Skillern,¹ recently reported a death following an extensive suppurative frontal sinusitis before the Triological Society in San Francisco, and I reported a death in a similar case at a meeting of the Eastern Section of the same society last winter in Washington, D. C. I shall now describe a recovery from the same condition.

I believe this is one of the few cases—I can find mention of only five others²—in which the patient has been reported as living following the spreading of the osteomyelitic process after a radical operation for the cure of empyemic frontal sinusitis.

There are two main divisions of osteomyelitis: one which apparently occurs spontaneously, with a slow course, and tends to self-limitation, and the other a malignant form. The latter is more or less diffuse, and usually follows traumatism. It causes softening of the bony structure, and spreads through the canals of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Submitted for publication, Sept. 9, 1929.

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