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ALEXANDER F. LASZLO, M.D.
New York

From the Oto-Laryngological Department of the University Hospital of the New York University-Bellevue Medical Center (Director: Dr. J. Daly). Associate attending of the University Hospital, Assistant Professor of the N. Y. U.

AMA Arch Otolaryngol. 1955;62(2):221-222.

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Removal of the tonsils and adenoids is one of the commonest operations performed, but hardly any surgical procedure is done in a more hit-or-miss manner than this operation. Thorough removal of the adenoids has been especially neglected, probably due to some difficulty of accessibility and lack of control. In recent years, thanks to the writings of Reeves and Brill,^* P. Guggenheim,³ and Meltzer,⁴ increasing emphasis has been paid to the thorough removal of the adenoids and also to the until now very much neglected enlarged salpingonasal and salpingopalatine folds, which, if present, cannot be seen by the ordinary technique. To do a good job and remove all the tissues from the upper part of the pharynx, they must be visualized, which frequently is quite a problem. Many operators are not even interested in seeing the result of their work. They go in once or twice with a curette . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Submitted for publication Feb. 21, 1955.

References 1 and 2.

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