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JOZEF TANIEWSKI; ALINA PIASECKA; HALINA SLIWINSKA

Arch Otolaryngol. 1963;77(6):660-664.

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The chronic maxillary sinusitis in children differs from a similar one observed in grownup persons. Much attention should be paid to the discharge which is found to accumulate in the sinus. On rare occasions the discharge is purulent, more frequently it is mucopurulent, and most frequently purely mucous.

In etiopathologic respect, infections and allergic or infection-allergic backgrounds are usually distinguished in this inflammation. However, the infection appears very frequently to be merely a secondary phenomenon, while the allergic symptoms do not always imply a reaction between the antigen and the antibody. The chronic sinusitis in children is rarely accompanied by lesions of allergic origin localized elsewhere (bronchial asthma, eczema). Moreover, antiallergic treatment in chronic sinusitis in children is more frequently ineffective.

The examination of the mucous membrane in the maxillary sinus in these cases very often reveals pathological impregnation by mucopolysaccharides and, apart from that, dilated capillaries as well as . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
SZCZECIN, POLAND

From the Otolaryngological Clinic of Medical Academy (Head: Prof. Dr. J. Taniewski) and from the Central Analytical Laboratory, State Clinic Hospital (Head: Dr. H. Sliwiska).

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Nov 7, 1962.

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