OTORHINOLOGIC ASPECTS OF SCARLET FEVER: WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE SINUSES

This paper deals chiefly with a study of the sinuses in scarlet fever made at the City Hospital for communicable diseases at Syracuse. Interest in this study was aroused by the results of a few x-ray films which were taken in a group of cases of scarlet fever complicated by otitis media. In each instance, the x-ray films disclosed a sinusitis of more or less severity. From this small beginning a series of 292 cases was studied. X-ray films were taken of the sinuses of the patients in this group and were examined for evidence of sinusitis. Certain interesting findings were brought out, and these stimulated an interest for further investigation, so a second group, numbering 80 cases, was selected and a rather intensive study made. In this second group each patient, on entrance to the hospital, was examined by the attending pediatrician (Dr. A. C. Silverman) and otolaryngologists (Drs.