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P. MANGABEIRA-ALBERNAZ, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1930;12(1):49-62.

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Fusospirochetosis, as I¹ have demonstrated more than once, is a specific and well defined disease, which may be located in any of the several parts of the body. The ear is no exception; it may lodge in any of its parts, revealing itself there as typically as it does anywhere else. Such cases as have been observed are infrequent and scattered, and as a rule have been superficially studied. For this reason fusospirochetosis of the ear may appear to most otologists as simply a complication of otitis, devoid of any special characteristics.

The accurate studies which I have been carrying out for years on the various localizations of fusospirochetosis and my observation of some cases occurring in the ear, which I have been fortunate enough to see, have convinced me that this otitis presents as distinct a clinical picture as that of Plaut-Vincent's angina, which is the pharyngeal localization . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Otorhinolaryngologist of the Santa Casa and the Stevenson Hospitals CAMPINAS, BRAZIL

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Dec. 10, 1929.

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