=Heath, M. D., Charles.—A Case of Sinuses in the Vault of the
Naso-pharynx.=—_The Jour. of Lar., Rhin. and Otol._, May, 1900.
Case shown at the Lar. Soc. of London:
A woman, æt. thirty-one years, had suffered several years with
discomfort in nose, throat, and mouth, with dyspepsia. Mucosa of nares
and pharynx markedly atrophied. Atrophied condition made post-rhinoscopy
easy. “The eustachian eminences were seen to be enormous, filling the
fossæ of Rosenmüller, and reaching nearly to the pharyngeal roof. Just
behind the upper edges of the choanæ, on each side, there appeared a
transverse elliptical opening, which was about half an inch long and a
fifth of an inch across at the widest part on the left side, and
slightly less in each dimension on the right; a probe apparently extends
about a quarter of an inch into the cavity.” In the discussion following
some thought them to be small recesses formed by cicatricial tissues,
other formed by peculiar distribution of adenoid tissue, and still
genuine sinuses.