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EDWARD H. CAMPBELL, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1930;11(6):756-762.

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The information that can be obtained from transillumination of the frontal sinuses often has been found to be of uncertain diagnostic value, largely owing to the variation in the size and shape of these cavities and in the thickness of their bony walls. In the hope of making this test of some slight additional aid, I should like to record a simple observation that no doubt has been made by many without, perhaps, realizing the significance of it.

When the frontal sinuses are large and not diseased, a clear outline of these spaces can be demonstrated by insertion of the light at the upper inner angles of the orbits. However, when one of these sinuses is small, how is one to know whether the usual failure to transmit light well is due to a small sinus or to one that has been clouded by by a pathologic process? A roentogenogram . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
PHILADELPHIA

From the Department of Otolaryngology of the University of Pennsylvania.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Jan. 30, 1930.

Read before the Section on Otolaryngology of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Jan. 15, 1930.

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