Accessory nasal sinusitis in childhood: With a record of bacteriological examinations

Crooks, J.; Signy, A. Gordon

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“…To find mucopus or pus in the antra of only 13 9% of a series of patients diagnosed clinically and radiologically as cases of chronic sinusitis compares sbtangely with the 59 -6% of Crooks (1947) and the 76% of Walker (1947). The obvious explanation is that the latter figures are those of antral wash-outs, and not of proof punctures.…”

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“…Admittedly only a small percentage of cases required this operation, and it was only resorted to when other methods failed, but it seems a serious operation to undertake in a child of 4 years of age, the case' reported by Harpman. At the Caldwell-Luc operation, it is reported that the mucosa shows changes in no way inferior to the changes found in adults with chronic sinus suppuration (Crooks, 1947). Yet an investigation by Bowen-Davies (1938) showed that while the average time of elimination of lipiodol from the antra in sterile cases was 17 9 days, the average time of elimination in infected cases was only 14 9 days.…”

Section: Archives Of Disease In Childhoodmentioning

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“…The operation of current choice appears to be the Caldwell-Luc or radical antrostomy (Crooks, 1947;Harpman, 1947;Scott Stevenson, 1947;Macbeth, 1950, and others) though Crooks in 1936 recommended intranasal drainage. Admittedly only a small percentage of cases required this operation, and it was only resorted to when other methods failed, but it seems a serious operation to undertake in a child of 4 years of age, the case' reported by Harpman.…”

Section: Archives Of Disease In Childhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There are two reports of proof puncture results in known or suspected sinus cases. Crooks (1947) found evidence of infection in 59-6% of 570 cases with opaque antra seen during 1946during , while Walker (1947 obtained positive findings in 76 % of 442 cases with sufficient signs and symptoms to warrant puncture out of 1,779 tonsil and adenoid patients. Lastly, Ebbs (1938) has obtained post-mortem evidence of sinus infection in 30-6% of 496 routine necropsies.…”

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Chronic Maxillary Sinusitis in Children

Birrell¹

1952

Archives of Disease in Childhood

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Chronic Maxillary Sinusitis in Children

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1952

Archives of Disease in Childhood

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“…had muco-pus in the antra, and Carmack (1931) 30 per cent. In a series of 100 children at Great Ormond Street I found that twenty-four had muco-pus in the antra (Crooks and Signy, 1936). All these children were from a tonsillectomy list, and obviously had something wrong with their noses or throats, or they would not have been undergoing that operation.…”

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Nasal Sinusitis in Childhood

1937

The Lancet

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Paranasal Sinusitis in Relation to Systemic Disease, With Special Reference to Diagnostic Lavage

Goldman¹

1941

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

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The significance of paranasal sinusitis as a local disease and its importance as a focus of infection in relation to a variety of systemic diseases are generally recognized. The pertinent problem at present is to discover the sinusitis when it exists, and this involves an evaluation of the evidences of infection as disclosed by the methods of investigation employed. Recognition of sinusitis is simple when there are local manifestations, but it is not generally understood that an infection of the paranasal sinuses may exist in the absence of local manifestations. Watson-Williams 1 has written of such sinusitis as "latent or occult infections" ; Harper 2 has called this type of sinusitis "hidden infection," and Sohval and Som 3 have used the term "masked sinusitis" in reporting cases of obscure fever. It seems best to consider these infections of the paranasal sinuses as silent so far as symptoms, local manifestations and apparent relation to systemic diseases are concerned.Thus, the paranasal sinuses must be investigated regularly as a possible source for headache or fever, especially when following infections of the upper respiratory tract, or for a focus of infection, even though no symptoms or physical evidences of sinusitis are presented.A complete investigation for the purpose of discovering an infection of the sinuses entails a direct examination of the upper respiratory tract, transillumination and roentgenologic study of the sinuses and diagnostic lavage of the maxillary antrums and the sphenoid sinuses. The comparative value and accuracy of these diagnostic methods have been the subject of much argumentative discourse among rhinologists in recent years. Unfortunately the conclusions and opinions of various authors have differed greatly in respect to some of these points, par-From the Laryngologic Service of Dr. Rudolph Kramer and the laboratories of the Mount Sinai Hospital.

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Accessory nasal sinusitis in childhood: With a record of bacteriological examinations

Cited by 29 publications

References 1 publication

Chronic Maxillary Sinusitis in Children

Chronic Maxillary Sinusitis in Children

Nasal Sinusitis in Childhood

Paranasal Sinusitis in Relation to Systemic Disease, With Special Reference to Diagnostic Lavage

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