A manual of diseases of the throat and nose : including the pharynx, larynx, trachea, oesophagus, nose and naso-pharynx . Fig. 63.—Diffuse Fig. 64.—Epithelioma of theEpiglottis. sionally it slowly eats away the cartilage without causing any tumefac-tion. This is well shown in a case exhibited by me some years ago atthe Pathological Society (Fig. 04). The following table shows the site of the disease in my 53 cases ofprimary laryngeal cancer, when the patients first presented themselves, orwhen the disease became manifest: Times. The right ventricular band 15 The left ventricular
A manual of diseases of the throat and nose : including the pharynx, larynx, trachea, oesophagus, nose and naso-pharynx . Fig. 63.—Diffuse Fig. 64.—Epithelioma of theEpiglottis. sionally it slowly eats away the cartilage without causing any tumefac-tion. This is well shown in a case exhibited by me some years ago atthe Pathological Society (Fig. 04). The following table shows the site of the disease in my 53 cases ofprimary laryngeal cancer, when the patients first presented themselves, orwhen the disease became manifest: Times. The right ventricular band 15 The left ventricular band . 13 The left vocal cord 3 The left vocal cord and subglottic region 2 The right vocal cord 2 The anterior commissure of the voc;:i t ords 2 The epiglottis 6 The posterior surface of the cricoid cartilage 1 The whole of larynx 9 It will be seen that in per cent, of cases, one of the ventricular bandswas the part first affected. Both Fauvel and Ziemssen 2 illustrate the question as to the site ofcancer of the larynx by reference to their cases. Thus in 37 cases ob-served by the former physician, 20 occurred on the left side, and of the
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