On a Classification of Intra-Nasal and Naso-Pharyngeal 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...

On the Removal of Naso-Pharyngeal Tumours

operating carried out successfully in three cases recently under his care. He had studied the many and various methods previously suggested and practised for the removal of these growths, and although his own method was not original in some of the details, he believed that in its entirety the procedure was new. Having freely admitted that some growths in this region might be removed by other th...

Tonsils and Naso-Pharyngeal Sepsis

The Effect of Naso-pharyngeal Operations on Renal Function.

The operations, tonsillectomy, adenoidectomy, and tooth extraction, are among the most practised therapeutic procedures in Bright's disease. Whether patients suffering from Bright's disease are able, without detriment to their kidneys, to undergo such operations, and whether the operations are likely to affect the subsequent course of the renal disease, are questions which form the object of th...

Naso-pharyngeal entrapment. An unusual complication of naso-jejunal feeding tube insertion using a guidewire

We present the case of an unusual complication of insertion of a naso-jejunal feeding tube (NJT) using a guidewire, where the guidewire formed an alpha-loop in the naso-pharynx, becoming entrapped after cutting into the soft palate. This required ENT input and a general anaesthetic to rectify the situation.