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REPORT OF CASE

N. EUGENE LACY, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1932;15(4):530-533.

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It is generally accepted that the polypus is the predominant type of tumor encountered in the nasal passages. When an unsuspected malignant growth is met with in association with nasal polypi, the situation is entirely different, as this complication is relatively rare. Medical literature contains few cases of this type.

Wagers¹ reported one case of intranasal carcinoma associated with polypi, and in his report stated, in reference to the infrequency of malignant growths in this site: "Herzfeld in a series of twenty-eight thousand nasal affections found but one carcinoma and out of 9,554 patients with cancer there were only four that had malignancy of the nasal passages, and Gurlt in one thousand cancer cases found the nose affected in only four."

In Wagers' case the patient was found to have rather extensive involvement of the nasal passages; the ethmoids, antrums, frontal sinuses and septum were involved, with external . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
KANSAS CITY, MO.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Aug. 18, 1931.

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