FURTHER STUDIES ON RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NASAL SEPTUM DEVIAION AND LOCALIZATION OF EPIPHARYNGITIS FROM VIEW POINT OF EXFOLIATIVE CYTOLOGY

Part II. Right and Left Difference of Nasal Ventilation in Case of Nasal Septum Deviation

Abstract

The authors have already reported that in thecases with nasal septum deviation, the inflammationis apt to be caused in the epipharynx correspondingto the convex side of nasal septum. Now we haveinvestigated how closely the right and left differencehas to do with nasal septum deviation using astrain gauge method which utilizes inspiring airpressure just in front of nostrils.
The results show that at cartilago septi nasithe poorest ventilation is caused with the wholebody inclined, the next poorest one with the deviationsexcept upper part deviation and that upperpart deviation and so-called septal spur which isdeviation at junction between cartilago septi nasiand vomer are less related with the function ofnasal ventilation in comparison.