Acute necrotizing rhinitis in man.

The clinical picture and the course of the acute necrotizing rhinitis in man is described in its different stages. Necrotizing rhinitis seems to be a significant factor in the etiology of some disturbances of the nasal respiratory function and of the ciliary activity of the nose, of atrophic rhinitis and of dry pharyngitis, in some cases of intranasai adhesions and of permanent mucosal defects of the septum. To our knowledge these defects have not been reported in the literature in the past, but are apparently not too rare.