Successful removal of two osteomata of the orbit : one originating in the frontal, the other in the ethmoidal cells with a history of osteomata of the neighboring pneumatic cavities of the orbit / by Joseph A. Andrews.

  • Andrews, Joseph A., 1855-1926.
Date:
1887
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Credit: Successful removal of two osteomata of the orbit : one originating in the frontal, the other in the ethmoidal cells with a history of osteomata of the neighboring pneumatic cavities of the orbit / by Joseph A. Andrews. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF THE ORBIT : ONE ORIGINATING IN THE FRONTAL, THE OTHER IN THE ETH- MOIDAL CELLS. With a History of Osteomata of the Neighboring Pneumatic Cavities of the Orbit.' The exostoses which intrude into the orbit from the neighboring cavities are very rare. In 290,579 cases of eye-disease observed at the New York Eye and Ear In- firmary since 1821, orbital exostosis occurred three times; at the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, New York, two cases were observed in 73,804 cases of eye-disease ; at the New York Ophthalmic and Aural Institute, it was ob- served three times in 65,608 cases of eye-disease ; there- fore, eight cases of orbital exostosis were observed in 429,989 cases of eye-disease. Many surgeons in large ophthalmic practice have never met with this disease. The number of cases of orbital exostosis recorded by foreign surgeons is small, and the results of operative treatment have been most discouraging. I have collected all the cases of osteoma of the frontal, ethmoidal, and sphenoidal sinuses which have been re- corded ; and I have cited briefly those cases which have been carefully observed, because some of them furnish valuable information from a practical stand-point. They show us what we are to expect after the removal of the growths in question by a surgical operation, and some of the fatal cases suggest to us a way by which we may ' Read before the Section in Surgery, New York Academy of Medicine, May g, 1887,