Preliminary attempt at a classification of rhinopharyngitis

: A study was conducted in 113 children with recurrent attacks of rhinopharyngitis, a frequent affection treated in ENT practice, to determine a classification and establish the etiopathogenicity of the disorder. Children were divided into two groups according to age, and clinical, radiologic, bacteriologic, biologic, and histologic data analyzed. An allergic or immunity deficiency origin could be confirmed in some cases, but etiopathogenicity was impossible to determine in many individual cases.