The accessory sinuses of the nose in children : 102 specimens reproduced in natural size from photographs / by A. Ónodi ; with a preface by W. Waldeyer ; tr. by Carl Prausnitz.

  • Ónodi, A. (Adolf), 1857-1919.
Date:
1911
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Credit: The accessory sinuses of the nose in children : 102 specimens reproduced in natural size from photographs / by A. Ónodi ; with a preface by W. Waldeyer ; tr. by Carl Prausnitz. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    year, according to Engel^) after the twelfth year, according to ft. fiarttnann^) during puberty, and according to Tillaux^) after the twelfth year. Zuckerkandl, . who does not regard the frontal sinus as derived from an ethmoidal cell, writes: In the new-born infant no trace of a frontal sinus is visible. Mihalkovics states that the frontal sinus arises out of the recess of the middle meatus; until the fourth year this protuberance remains small, and even at puberty it has only attained the size of a pea. According to Poirier*) the frontal sinus is first seen about the end of the second year and is then difficult to demonstrate; about the seventh year it attains the size of a pea and ceases to grow between the fifteenth and twentieth j^ear. Spee^) makes the following statement: Whilst the first rudiment of a frontal sinus is visible soon after the first year in the form of a shallow de- pression, it does not shew any considerable increase until the time immediately preceding puberty, its final size being attained, as a rule, about the twentieth year. According to Langer-Toldt^) the earliest sign of a frontal sinus is seen about the end of the first year in the form of a shallow depression. The dej^th of this cavity increases slowly, so that at the sixth year it has hardly reached the size of a p)ea. The development of the frontal sinus progresses more rapidly about the eleventh or twelfth year. Chiari') says in his text-book: The frontal sinus is completely absent in the new-born infant, and at piuberty it is about the size of a pea. Zarnico^) writes in his text-book: The frontal sinuses are not present at birth. Their development begins towards the end of the first year. About the sixth or seventh year their size is about that of a pea. In Hajek's ^) text book we find only an enumeration of the results of Killian's embryological researches. According to Chiarugi ^'') the frontal sinuses are derived from the anterior ethmoidal cells; they are not distinctly visible until the eighth year, and attain the final stage of their development between the fifteenth and twentieth year, or even later. In other German, French and English text-books no accm'ate data referring to the frontal sinuses in childhood are to be found. From the statements repeated above it ■\vill be obvious, that the views of the different authors vary and are often contradictory; the only uniform statement as to the measurements of the sinus is the size of a pea, but the authors differ as to when this size is attained. I have been unable to trace any further anatomical data, more especially, any measurements of the frontal sinuses, either in anatomical or rhinological text-books. ') Anatomie. 1859. 2) Anatomie. 1881. 4 Anatomie. Paris 1884. *) Traite d'anatomie. 1903. ^) Bardelebens Handbuch der Anatomie. Skelettlehre 1896. «) Anatomie. 1897. ') Die Krankheiten der Nase. Vienna 1903. «) Die Krankheiten der Nase. 1910. ) Patholog. u. Therap. der entziindlichen Erkrankungen der Nebenhohlen der Nase. 1909. ) Anatomie. 1904.