OTITIS AND AIR CELL SYSTEMS
- 1 July 1941
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery
- Vol. 34 (1) , 24-32
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archotol.1941.00660040034004
Abstract
In the last few decades it has frequently been asserted that a connection exists between the size of the air cell system in the temporal bone, on the one hand, and the development and course of otitis, on the other. The earlier view that chronic otitis results in a sclerosing of the bone attended by the disappearance of a previously existing cell system has been abandoned. Heine1 and Cheatle2 were the first to communicate observations on the presence of a sclerotic mastoid bone without coexistent otitis. That a sclerotic mastoid bone is so often found in cases of chronic otitis is due, in their opinion, to the fact that deficient pneumatization favors the development of chronic otitis. Investigations so far carried out show that in different persons the air cell system varies in size within fairly narrow limits. The size of the cell system has been estimated by macroscopic examinationKeywords
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