Infective complications are liable to follow injuries by bullets or fragments of shell, and they not only endanger the eyeball, but are liable to be associated with suppurative conditions in the adjacent air sinuses-frontal, maxillary, and Ethmoidal-or in the cranial cavity.
"Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition."
Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson
The presence of polypi and granulations, with pus oozing out from between them, and increasing after withdrawal of the probe, and the detection of carious bone are significant of Ethmoidal suppuration.
"Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition."
Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson
The treatment consists in extending the operation for the frontal or maxillary sinus so as to ensure drainage of the Ethmoidal cells.
"Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition."
Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson