Maxillary swing approach to the nasopharynx

Maxillary swing approach to the nasopharynx
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上颌摆动入路鼻咽

DOI：
10.1002/hed.2880140116
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1992
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通讯作者：
William L. Wei
William L. Wei
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A. Brown;William L. Wei

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致编辑：总是很难知道谁应该因为描述了一种特定的外科技术而得到认可，而且很少有人能声称自己有真正的原创想法，因为我们都是建立在我们从别人那里学到的东西之上的。因此，当我们写了一篇关于“新”操作的文章后不久发现它被其他作者描述时，我并不感到惊讶。事实上，许多所谓的新手术技术并非不可能仅仅是对很久以前发表的方法的重新描述或修改，而这些方法现在已经消失在晦涩的科学杂志的深处。盖伊医院的外科医生亨尼奇·奥吉维爵士在50多年前说过：“所有最近的东西不一定都是进步，所有的进步也不一定都是最近的。”我写这篇文章的原因是对Wei et a13关于上颌挥拍方法的文章发表评论。这是一种很好的进入鼻咽和上颌后区域的方法，我发现对这个区域的肿瘤最有用。然而，这并不是什么新鲜事。我第一次注意到这项技术是在1984年第7届欧洲颌面外科协会大会上提出的。Altemir随后在1986年发表了一篇英文论文。我很清楚地看到，他在1982年的西班牙文献中首次描述了这项技术，我觉得他应该对这种优雅的方法给予一些赞扬。这总是假设，令人惊讶的是，颌面手术通常是这样的，它实际上并没有在上个世纪的德国文献中被描述！
TO THE EDITOR: It is always difficult to know who should receive the recognition for describing a particular surgical technique, and there are few who can claim to have a truly original idea since we all build on what we have learned from others. Thus, I was not surprised when we wrote an article on a “new” operation’ to find it described by other authors’ shortly afterward. Indeed it is not unlikely that many so-called new operative techniques are simply redescriptions or modifications of methods published long before but which are now lost in the depths of obscure scientific journals. I t was the Guy’s Hospital surgeon Sir Heneage Ogilvie who said, more than 50 years ago, “All that is recent is not necessarily an advance, and all advances are not necessarily recent.” My reason for writing is to comment on the article by Wei et a13 on the maxillary swing approach. This is an excellent means of gaining access to the nasopharynx and retromaxillary region which I have found most useful for tumors in this area. Nevertheless, it is not exactly new. The technique first came to my notice when presented a t the 7th Congress of the European Association for Maxillofacial Surgery in 1984.435 An English language paper was subsequently published by Altemir in 1986.6 It is clear on reading this that he first described the technique in the Spanish literature in 1982, and I feel he should be given some credit for this elegant approach. This is always assuming that, as is surprisingly often the case with maxillofacial operations, it was not actually described in the German literature of the last century!