XLVII A Study of Lymphoid Tissue of the Nasopharynx

In the course of the study being carried on at the Winthrop Foundation of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary into the causes and treatment of hearing impairment, we found a significant number of children in whom intermittent tubal closure appeared to be related to recurrent adenoidal growth. In many of these young patients, moreover, neither surgery nor postoperative x-ray treatment of the lymphoid tissue put a stop to regrowth. We began to ask ourselves whether these cases required special surgical techniques. Was allergy perhaps at the bottom of the trouble? What could be done with irradiation? What kind of irradiation-x-ray or radium? We soon found, in searching for the answers to these questions, that we would have to begin at the very beginning and find out all there was to know about nasopharyngeal lymphoid tissue. What is lymphoid tissue? What purpose does it serve in the organism?

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