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G. EDWARD TREMBLE, M.D.
MONTREAL, CANADA

Arch Otolaryngol. 1940;32(5):952-957.

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The sphenoid sinus was not recognized as a possible source of infection until 1905.¹ At that time and later (in 1908²), Onodi first described the anatomic connections between the posterior group of sinuses and the optic canal. As a result of his observations he felt that he had definitely established an etiologic relation between disturbances of vision and disease of the posterior ethmoid cells and the sphenoid sinuses.

Loeb³ in 1909 corroborated Onodi's work, and Schaeffer⁴ in 1920 again emphasized this as a definite fact. They all showed that it is not uncommon for the posterior ethmoid cells and the sphenoid sinus to encroach on the optic canal, making it "abnormally small," a condition which may lead to serious pressure on the nerve, with ophthalmologic symptoms.

In 1927, Crane⁵ expressed the opinion that not only is there a likelihood of direct extension of infection from this relation but that simple . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Footnotes
Dr. S. Hanford McKee supplied many of the references used in this article.

Read before the Otolaryngological Section of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Montreal at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Feb. 15, 1940.

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