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MARCUS DIAMANT, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1941;34(1):24-32.

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In the last few decades it has frequently been asserted that a connection exists between the size of the air cell system in the temporal bone, on the one hand, and the development and course of otitis, on the other. The earlier view that chronic otitis results in a sclerosing of the bone attended by the disappearance of a previously existing cell system has been abandoned. Heine¹ and Cheatle² were the first to communicate observations on the presence of a sclerotic mastoid bone without coexistent otitis. That a sclerotic mastoid bone is so often found in cases of chronic otitis is due, in their opinion, to the fact that deficient pneumatization favors the development of chronic otitis.

Investigations so far carried out show that in different persons the air cell system varies in size within fairly narrow limits. The size of the cell system has been estimated by macroscopic examination . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
HALMSTAD, SWEDEN

Footnotes
This communication is a review of the monograph by Marcus Diamant "Otitis and Pneumatisation of the Mastoid Bone," issued from the State Institute of Human Genetics and Race Biology, Uppsala, Sweden, in 1940, Prof. Gunnar Dahlberg, M.D., LL.D., director (Acta oto-laryng., 1940, supp. 41, pp. 1-149).

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