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I.はじめに
口蓋扁桃に起因する障害としては,1)感染による局所障害および病巣感染,2)肥大による機械的障害とがあげられている。前者は深く研究されて多くの業績が発表されているが,後者に関しては専門医の関心も薄く報告もほとんどないようである。著者は口蓋扁桃肥大に起因する発作性呼吸困難症について以前より注目していたが,ここに最近経験した代表的症例をあげて諸賢の御批判を仰ぎたいと思う。
Dyspnea of sudden onset caused by mechanical obstruction of the air passage due to tonsillar hypertrophy is at times erroneously diagnosed as cardiac asthma, puerile asthma or epilepsy. Common symptoms occurring in these cases appear to be: 1) in a child less than age 5 ; 2) when the child falls into a deep sleep; 3) concomittantly with an attack of an acute cold ;4) at nights when the child had been physically exhausted during the day ; and, 5) the clyspnea will be suddenly relieved when the child's sleeping position is changed from supine to lateral or face down. The causative factor of this attack is not only due to apparent hypertrophy of the tonsils but also imbedded type of hypertrophy as well.
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