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A BILATERAL CASE

PAUL O. SNOKE, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1930;11(5):602-605.

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The sensitivity of certain tonsillar tumors to radiation has been recognized for about eight years. In 1921, Regaud described the histopathology of certain peculiarly radiosensitive intra-oral tumors which he called lympho-epitheliome. Two of his co-workers subsequently described the clinical picture.¹ Quick and Cutler,² with the able assistance of Ewing, made noteworthy contributions to the knowledge concerning this neoplasm. A recent contribution by Cutler³ summarizes very well the entire knowledge concerning this pathologic and clinical entity.

The following case⁴ is reported to assist in establishing it as a true clinical entity and to show that a normal appearing tonsil may be the site of a neoplasm.

REPORT OF A CASE

E. K., a white woman, aged 60, was well until December, 1925, when she noticed a sense of constriction and discomfort in her throat. Simultaneously a mass appeared at the angle of the jaw on the left side. This mass enlarged . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
LANCASTER, PA.

From the X-ray Department of the Lancaster General Hospital.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Dec. 10, 1929.

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