Diseases of the nose and the accessory cavities / by W. Spencer Watson ; with special sections on diseases of the skin of the nose, on injuries, on rhinoplastic operations, and on ear-affections in their relation to intra-nasal diseases / by Robert Liveing, William Adams, and A.E. Cunningham.

  • Watson, W. Spencer (William Spencer), 1836-1906.
Date:
1890
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Credit: Diseases of the nose and the accessory cavities / by W. Spencer Watson ; with special sections on diseases of the skin of the nose, on injuries, on rhinoplastic operations, and on ear-affections in their relation to intra-nasal diseases / by Robert Liveing, William Adams, and A.E. Cunningham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DISEASE OF LABYNGEAL JOINTS. IJ-J- attacks the perichondrium primarily, the arytenoids are most frequently affected, and they may be found lyuag separated from the soft structures in an abscess cavity. Necrosis of the cricoid and epiglottis have also been observed. A general thickening of the soft structures may be left by the disease. Small-pox may affect the laryngeal cartilages, during the stage of convalescence. The arytenoids and cricoid have been found necrosed in a similar manner as in typhoid. The mucous membrane alone may be thickened, with exudation of lymph but occasionally it seems to affect the perichondrium first. Scarlet fever has been observed to be followed, some time afterwards, by necrosis of the cricoid; in a child, aged 8.f Measles may cause ulceration in the larynx. Glanders may result in extensive ulceration of the larynx, extending to the cartilages. Disease of Laryngeal Joints—Acute inflamma- tion of the crico-arytenoid articulation has been met with from rheumatism, gout (very rare), tonsillitis, and the exanthems. Ankylosis is met with in rheumatism, typhoid, syphihs, gout, and the exanthems. The symptoms resemble paralysis, and the vocal cord may be absolutely fixed. DifBcult deglutition is also frequently present. Tenderness over the crico-arytenoid * Specimen, Royal College of Surgeons, No. 3471. t Trans. Path. Soc., vol. xii., p. 52.