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W. L. POST, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1930;11(5):606-608.

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My purpose is not to discuss maxillary sinus infection in detail but to present a helpful routine for determining its presence and importance.

The positive diagnosis of a maxillary infection frequently is difficult to reach, and the importance of such infection to other disease is difficult to determine.

Experience has shown that no one or two diagnostic procedures can be relied on, especially a single negative washing; nor is any one procedure more important than the other. It is only by viewing the case through all the diagnostic aspects that one can arrive at a true picture, accurate in diagnosis and in prognosis, as to both outcome and most satisfactory method of care, and still avoid overemphasis of the importance of a maxillary infection, coincident, but not directly associated, with some other illness.

I want to stress especially the importance of history, not only from the first statement but from . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
JOPLIN, MO.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Dec. 18, 1929.

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