Abstract
In this paper, when I speak of diphtheritic stenosis of the larynx, I mean, not acute laryngeal diphtheria in which the O'Dwyer method of intubation has been and should be used, but the chronic type in which it has been necessary to reintubate the patient after a period of a month to six weeks; in other words, chronic tube cases. John Rogers, 1 in his paper on treatment of chronic obstruction in the larynx and trachea, read before the American Laryngological Association on June 3, 1905, stated: Hypertrophic subglottic laryngitis is most commonly encountered in retained tube cases, less often in those with a retained tracheal cannula and almost always after diphtheria. Diphtheria as an etiologic factor in stenosis of the larynx is well established. Coplin 2 in his Special Pathology, showed in 220 patients examined by Councilman, that the larynx is involved more than any other part of the
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