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USE OF RADIUM IN TREATMENT OF HYPERTROPHIC LYMPHOID TISSUE IN THE NASOPHARYNX
CHARLES H. DOW, M.D.
Arch Otolaryngol. 1949;50(4):417-428.
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INCOMPLETE surgical removal is not the only cause of the recurrence of lymphoid tissue in the nasopharynx following adenoidectomy. Even though all visible and palpable areas of adenoid tissue are carefully removed, there may remain seeds of lymphoid tissue in the mucous membrane of the nasopharynx which may increase in size, leading to deafness, chronic pharyngitis, chronic postnasal discharge and otorrhea.
During the past ten years radium has been found to be useful in destroying recurrent lymphoid tissue in the nasopharynx. However, the dose of radiation has not been definitely established.
The aims of this paper are: (1) to present a picture of radium therapy as applied to the nasopharynx, including the anatomic, pathologic and physical principles involved; (2) to show the therapeutic indications for the therapy; (3) to outline the therapeutic technic; (4) to compare the results in a short series of cases in which the monel metal® 50
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Author Affiliations
MONESSEN, PA.
From the Otolaryngological Service, Gill Memorial Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, Roanoke, Va.
Footnotes
Read before the Greenbrier Valley Medical Association in Lewisburg, W. Va., July 14, 1948.
Read before the class of the Twenty-First Annual Spring Graduate Course in Ophthalmology, Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology of the Gill Memorial Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, April 7, 1948.
Thesis submitted to the faculty of the Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Medical Science (M.Sc. [Med.]) for graduate work in otolaryngology.
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