A system of surgery : theoretical and practical . nd the consequentobstruction to respiration, render tracheotomy necessary, or, without this operation,lead to a fatal result at a comparatively early period. But in some instancespatients suffering from laryngeal growths of this kind have been known to live foryears. In such cases, it is probable that the larynx has been sufficiently cleared forbreathing purposes by the detachment and expectoration of portions of the growthfrom time to time during coughing. Tiirck records a case in which the whole growthappears to have thus been got rid of.^ Ac
A system of surgery : theoretical and practical . nd the consequentobstruction to respiration, render tracheotomy necessary, or, without this operation,lead to a fatal result at a comparatively early period. But in some instancespatients suffering from laryngeal growths of this kind have been known to live foryears. In such cases, it is probable that the larynx has been sufficiently cleared forbreathing purposes by the detachment and expectoration of portions of the growthfrom time to time during coughing. Tiirck records a case in which the whole growthappears to have thus been got rid of.^ According to some observers, it would appear that these papillomatous growthsoccasionally undergo a process of pulpy or caseous degeneration.* In such cases it iseasy to understand that they may become broken down and expectorated. Fig. 152.—Papilloma of Larynxspringing from border of leftventricle. Larynx opened infront. Fig. 153.—Pedunculated Fibrous Polypusof the Larynx arising near the anteriorextremity of the right ventricle of
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