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XI. THE PATHOLOGY OF ALLERGIC TISSUE AS SEEN IN THE NOSE AND IN THE ACCESSORY SINUSES

FRANCIS L. WEILLE, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1930;12(6):785-798.

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Studies of pathologic changes in the tissues of the nose and accessory sinuses in asthma and in vasomotor rhinitis have been few. Outstanding ones have been reported by Finck¹ and Hansel.² An investigation has recently been carried out under the auspices of the Harvard Medical School at the Anaphylaxis Clinic of the Massachusetts General Hospital and at the Mosher Laboratory of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. It has had as one of its purposes the study of pathologic tissues removed from the nose and accessory sinuses of patients having asthma or vasomotor rhinitis or both.

The material studied was taken from twenty-six allergic patients, whose clinical reports will be published later. Eighteen of the patients had asthma; of these, fifteen had primary and three secondary operations on the sinuses. By secondary operation is meant a radical operation on a sinus that has previously been operated . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BOSTON

From the Anaphylaxis Clinic of the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Mosher Laboratory of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, May 28, 1930.

Read before the American Laryngological Association, May 22, 1930.

The expenses of this investigation were met from an anonymous donation known as the "M. G. H. Asthma Fund."

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