元ハンセン病患者の鼓膜、耳管咽頭口所見
2000 年 10 巻 5 号 p. 571-577
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2000 年 10 巻 5 号 p. 571-577
The tympanic membrane and nasopharyngeal orifice of the Eustachian tube of 40 former leprosy patients were reported.
There were 16 cases of secretory otitis media, 20 ears, in 40 patients.
13 cases in these 16 cases have deformity of the nasal cavity, especially a large perforation or defect of the nasal septum, and remarkable atrophy of the nasal conchae.
They have a large nasal cavity. In 9 cases, the nasopharyngeal orifice of the Eustachian tube might be deformed due to leprosy.
The patients of patent tube are observed in 16 cases, also they are aged.
They have little deformity of their nasal cavity and the nasopharyngeal orifice of the Eustachian tube, but their mucous membrane and submucous tissue of the nasopharyngeal orifice of the Eustachian tube is remarkably atrophic.
