Nasal and Naso-Pharyngeal Conditions as Causative Factors in Middle Ear Diseases

Naso-Pharyngeal Fibroma

W. McC., age 17 years. This patient attended E.N.T. Extern and was admitted to the Royal Victoria Hospital on the 16th September, 1949. He complained of nasal obstruction for one year which was noticed first on the right side and later on the left. Four months before admission he had a severe epistaxis, during which he lost a considerable amount of blood. He was treated six months previously fo...

Tonsils and Naso-Pharyngeal Sepsis

Practitioner's Handbook of Diseases of the Ear and Naso-Pharynx

The chapter on the complications of suppurative middle-ear disease, written by William Milligan, is particularly good, containing in small compass a very clear account of the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment, especially operative treatment, of these affections. We note that the author highly values the Wilde incision in the treatment of mastoid periostitis when the periostitis is primary or se...

Eustachian tube and middle ear diseases.

Bargaining with reading habit is no need. Reading is not kind of something sold that you can take or not. It is a thing that will change your life to life better. It is the thing that will give you many things around the world and this universe, in the real world and here after. As what will be given by this eustachian tube and middle ear diseases, how can you bargain with the thing that has ma...

Diseases of the middle ear in childhood

Middle ear diseases in childhood play an important role in daily ENT practice due to their high incidence. Some of these like acute otitis media or otitis media with effusion have been studied extensively within the last decades. In this article, we present a selection of important childhood middle ear diseases and discuss the actual literature concerning their treatment, management of complica...