Carcinoma of the external auditory meatus and middle ear.
Carcinoma of the external auditory meatus and middle ear.
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外耳道和中耳癌。
DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-2273.1984.tb01511.x
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发表时间:
1984
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P. Stell
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P. Stell
Case reports of cancer of the ear began to appear about 1875. Furstenberg'states that carcinoma of the ear was first reported about 1775 by Wilde, Schwartze, and others, but this statement is wrong. Firstly because histopathology was not available in 1775 and secondly because Wilde was not born until 1815 and Schwartze until 1837! This typographical error was later copied by others2-'and illustrates well the dangers of quoting historical references secondhand, particularly when the original paper was in another language. The first systematic description of the disease appeared in 1883 in Politzer's classic textbook, based mainly on cases reported by others, eg Schwartze. It was already recognized that carcinoma of the middle ear arises' either during an existing suppuration of the middle ear or after exhaustion of carious processes in the temporal bone'.'The second milestone is Zeroni's monograph of 1899 (not 1924 as stated by some4). He described 5 cases of his own, fully reviewed the literature and collected 124 cases reported up to 1899.6 The first was reported in 1804 though one cannot be sure that this was a carcinoma because histopathology did not become available until about 1850.Newhart reviewed the literature in 1917, and could only find a further 34 patients reported since Zeroni's monograph,'He gives references to the 8 cases reported in the American literature up to that date. He conducted a postal survey of American otologists: 192 of 247 who replied had never seen a proven case while two had seen 5 cases each-the greatest number. He added 1 case of his own. Broders presented a study of 63 epitheliomas of the ear in 1921. His paper covered 9 tumours of the external meatus, 1 of the middle ear and 53 of the auricle. 8 This is the first pathological account of a large number of cases and it includes interesting details of histological types and differentiation, lymph node metastases etc., but as all the cases are grouped together it is not possible to deduce anything specific about tumours at individual sites. Peek & Hauser in 1941 gave an extensive review of the early literature although some of their dates are wrong.* They recorded the second adenoid cystic carcinoma-the first had been reported in 1933.9 The major contributions in the twentieth century are the accounts of radiotherapy by Lederman," and of surgery by Lewis. 4.11-l'