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Mr. Cooper is in possession of a remarkable case of ossi-
fication from both antra ; a tumour projected from each an-
trum, which, by their gradual enlargement, effected such a
change in the structure of the orbits, that the eyes consider-
ably projected at length the ossification proceeded up-
;
wards, and produced so much pressure upon the brain as to
cause the death of the patient.
Mr. Koecker mentions having seen one case of diseased
antrum. Mucus occasionally from obstruction of the canal
leading from the antrum to the nose is accumulated in the
antrum, of which I will insert an interesting case.
* The most interesting example of the effects of this
lodgement of mucus in the antrum, is that recorded by Du-
bois : a boy, between seven and eight years of age, was ob-
served to have, at the base of the ascending process of the
upper jaw bone, on the left side, a small, very hard tumour
of the size of a nut. As it gave no pain and did not appear
to increase, his parents gave themselves no concern about it
when he was about sixteen, it increased in size, and began
to be somewhat painful. Before he was eighteen, its aug-
mentation was so considerable, that the floor of the orbit was
raised up by it ; the eye thrust upwards, the palpebrae very
much closed, the arch of the palate pushed down in the form of
a tumour, and the nostril almost effaced. Below the orbit, the
cheek made a considerable prominence, while the nose was
thrown towards the opposite side of the face, and the skin at
the upper part of the tumour below the lower eyelid, was of
a purple-red colour, and threatened to burst. The upper lip
was drawn upwards, and behind it all the gums on the left
side were observed to project much further than those on
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Mr. Cooper is in possession of a remarkable case of ossi-
fication from both antra ; a tumour projected from each an-
trum, which, by their gradual enlargement, effected such a
change in the structure of the orbits, that the eyes consider-
ably projected at length the ossification proceeded up-
;
wards, and produced so much pressure upon the brain as to
cause the death of the patient.
Mr. Koecker mentions having seen one case of diseased
antrum. Mucus occasionally from obstruction of the canal
leading from the antrum to the nose is accumulated in the
antrum, of which I will insert an interesting case.
* The most interesting example of the effects of this
lodgement of mucus in the antrum, is that recorded by Du-
bois : a boy, between seven and eight years of age, was ob-
served to have, at the base of the ascending process of the
upper jaw bone, on the left side, a small, very hard tumour
of the size of a nut. As it gave no pain and did not appear
to increase, his parents gave themselves no concern about it
when he was about sixteen, it increased in size, and began
to be somewhat painful. Before he was eighteen, its aug-
mentation was so considerable, that the floor of the orbit was
raised up by it ; the eye thrust upwards, the palpebrae very
much closed, the arch of the palate pushed down in the form of
a tumour, and the nostril almost effaced. Below the orbit, the
cheek made a considerable prominence, while the nose was
thrown towards the opposite side of the face, and the skin at
the upper part of the tumour below the lower eyelid, was of
a purple-red colour, and threatened to burst. The upper lip
was drawn upwards, and behind it all the gums on the left
side were observed to project much further than those on
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