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A POSITIVE DIAGNOSTIC SIGN OR ENTITY ESTABLISHING ANATOMIC DISPLACEMENT OF LOWER END OF CARTILAGINOUS NASAL SEPTUM

MYRON METZENBAUM, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1932;16(5):690-697.

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DEMONSTRATION O GEOMETIC PROPOSITION

When a perpendicular is dropped from the apex of an isosceles triangle (a triangle having two equal sides) to its base the original triangle is divided into two similar or two symmetrical triangles. If the base of this perpendicular is moved to either side, then these two similar triangles become dissimilar or asymmetrical. The converse of this geometric proposition is equally true. The base of the nose as viewed from below is an isosceles (the two sides are equal) triangle. From the apex of this isosceles triangle the lower end of the cartilaginous septum, together with the columnar cartilages, forms a perpendicular to the base line and divides the triangular base of the nose into two symmetrical or two similar nares.

If the perpendicular or lower end of the cartilaginous septum is shifted or sprung to either side from out of its septal groove . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CLEVELAND

Footnotes
Read before the Philadelphia Laryngological Society, Nov. 3, 1931.

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