OZENA
1941; American Medical Association; Volume: 117; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1001/jama.1941.02820380009004
ISSN1538-3598
Autores Tópico(s)Nasal Surgery and Airway Studies
ResumoOzena is called also atrophic rhinitis, atrophic catarrh, coryza foetida and sclerotic rhinitis. However, the favorite and common term is "the opprobrium of medicine." The Germans, with their genius for expressing delicate shades of meaning and their natural use of euphemistic terms, call it "stink nose." Because of the voluminousness of the literature, this review will be limited to the etiology. The report to the Madrid congress by Leroux-Robert and Costiniu 1 contains one hundred and seventeen pages, and a total of two hundred and seventy-nine papers are listed, mostly by continental authors and mostly written since 1920, have appeared in the literature. If the true cause of ozena is ascertained, this most distressing disease, with all its pathologic and social implications, may well be eliminated. St. Clair Thomson 2 has succinctly stated that ozena is a chronic rhinitis characterized by atrophic changes in the nasal mucosa and the turbinal
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