. Diseases of the nose and throat . rnal treatment. Condylomata or other hyperplastic tumors of the mucousmembrane of syphilitic origin may occur, especially of thefalse or true cords which resist for a long time both generaland local treatment. They mechanically cause serious ob-struction to respiration. Post-syphilitic cicatrices may from contraction producepermanent hoarseness or serious stenosis. TUBERCULOSIS OF THE LARYNX Etiology.—-The disease is a local infection by the tuberclebacillus. It is commonly supposed that the lesions in thelarynx are due to direct infection from tubercular sp
. Diseases of the nose and throat . rnal treatment. Condylomata or other hyperplastic tumors of the mucousmembrane of syphilitic origin may occur, especially of thefalse or true cords which resist for a long time both generaland local treatment. They mechanically cause serious ob-struction to respiration. Post-syphilitic cicatrices may from contraction producepermanent hoarseness or serious stenosis. TUBERCULOSIS OF THE LARYNX Etiology.—-The disease is a local infection by the tuberclebacillus. It is commonly supposed that the lesions in thelarynx are due to direct infection from tubercular sputa^although the lymph and blood channels are sometimesaccused of bringing the bacillus to the larynx. Tuberculosis of the larynx is very seldom primary, al- 272 DISEASES OF THE NOSE AND THROAT though occasionally it is the only marked tubercular lesionto be found. In the great majority of cases there is also well-marked and oftentimes extensive tuberculosis of the involvement of the larynx occurs in a considerable. Fig. 54.—Laryngeal tuberculosis: interarytenoid infiltration. percentage of cases of advanced pulmonary tuberculosis,estimated by different authorities at between three and thirtyper cent. Diagnosis.—-As seen in the larynx tuberculosis appearsin areas of chronic infiltration and ulceration or both.
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