An American text-book of the diseases of children .. . hood, and is a deformity of the septum narium characterized by an exuberantand projecting growth of bone and cartilage along the sutural lines of the com-ponent bones and cartilages of the septum narium. The most frequent location DISEASES OF THE NOSE. 841 Fig. it> the ButuraJ line of the vomer and the superior maxilla and cartilaginousseptum just within tin- anterior nares and close to the floor of the nose I rig. 8). Necrosing ethmoiditis of Woakea also figures as a persistent cause and com-plication of uasa] polypus. It involves


An American text-book of the diseases of children .. . hood, and is a deformity of the septum narium characterized by an exuberantand projecting growth of bone and cartilage along the sutural lines of the com-ponent bones and cartilages of the septum narium. The most frequent location DISEASES OF THE NOSE. 841 Fig. it> the ButuraJ line of the vomer and the superior maxilla and cartilaginousseptum just within tin- anterior nares and close to the floor of the nose I rig. 8). Necrosing ethmoiditis of Woakea also figures as a persistent cause and com-plication of uasa] polypus. It involves the nasal tributaries of the ethmoid bone,ially its process, the middle turbinated body, which usually appears cleftasunder, leaving a fissure down its centre, from which will protrude the is illustrated in Fig. 9, which was taken from a patient, aged twenty years,who had suffered since childhood. Empyema of the antrum of Highmore, althoughrare with children, is also a prolific source of nasalpolypus in adults, apparently caused by the constantpresence of fetid pus in the middle meatus as it escapesfrom the antrum through the hiatus semilunaris. The form, aspect, and consistence of a myxoma hasbeen compared to a grape-pulp. The natural shape ispyriform, but this is often varied by pressure. Whensmal


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