Diseases of the throat and nasal passages; a guide to the diagnosis and treatment of affections of the pharynx, sophagus, trachea, larynx, and nares . Fig. 131.—Lupus of larynx (Ziemssen). Fig. 132.—Syphilis of larynx (Ziemssen). nitrate of silver. The similarity of the laryngoscopic image inthis case to one of syphilitic ulceration, illustrated by the sameobserver (Fig. 132), is very marked. Lerferts case, a typicalone, occurring in a female with extensive lupus of face andthroat, of thirty-one years standing, and commencing in thenose, is described as having borne greater resemblance to thep
Diseases of the throat and nasal passages; a guide to the diagnosis and treatment of affections of the pharynx, sophagus, trachea, larynx, and nares . Fig. 131.—Lupus of larynx (Ziemssen). Fig. 132.—Syphilis of larynx (Ziemssen). nitrate of silver. The similarity of the laryngoscopic image inthis case to one of syphilitic ulceration, illustrated by the sameobserver (Fig. 132), is very marked. Lerferts case, a typicalone, occurring in a female with extensive lupus of face andthroat, of thirty-one years standing, and commencing in thenose, is described as having borne greater resemblance to thephysical appearances of tuberculous laryngitis than to thoseof either syphilis or carcinoma. It is quite probable that the involvement of the larynx isusually a late manifestation of lupus, which has commenced inthe nose or upper lip, and then extended along the mucousmembrane of the nasal passages to the palate, pharynx, baseof tongue, and epiglottis. The palate and pharynx undergodestructive ulceration and vicious cicatrization. The epiglottisbecomes thick, indurated, and rigid, and undergoes destructiveulceration, similar, according to Tu
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