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Identifier: diseasesofnose00knig (find matches)
Title: Diseases of the nose and throat
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Knight, Charles H. (Charles Huntoon), b. 1849
Subjects: Nose Throat
Publisher: Philadelphia, P. Blakiston's son & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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nx from the base of the right superior cornu of the thyroidwas once removed by Asch with a modified Stoerk guillotine. Acurious feature of the case was that the patient, an amateur vocalist,subsequently gained two notes in his upper register. According to Gerhardt there were on record in 1896 only ten casesof lipoma of the larynx, five of which were removed during life.Several cases have since been added to the number. Kyle states thatthe neoplasm shows a disposition to recur suggestive of a possibletendency toward malignant degeneration. Bosworth gives the de-tails of fonr cases of lipoma of the larynx as follows. One was 340 DISEASES OF THE NOSE AND THROAT. reported by Holt in a man of eighty years. It was pedunculated,upon the rim of the glottis, and had given rise to symptoms for twelveyears. It was drawn into the larynx and caused fatal asphyxia. Ina second case, reported by Jones, the lipoma, two inches in diameter,was removed through the mouth. In a third case, reported by Mac-
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119. Mackenzies Laryngeal Cutting Forceps. leod, a pharyngotomy for a tumor as large as an orange was followedby fatal hemorrhage. Bruns records the case of a woman, twenty-five years old, who had a congenital lipoma removed piecemeal withthe galvanocautery in fifteen sittings. The existence of adenoma, which is included in the list, is denied NEOPLASMS OF THE LARYNX. 341 by many authorities. F. Massei has reported two cases, but his, aswell as several described by other observers, is far from being well

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