Radiography and radio-therapeutics (1917) (14571679727)

Identifier: radiographyradio01knox (find matches)

Title: Radiography and radio-therapeutics

Year: 1917 (1910s)

Authors: Knox, Robert, 1868-1928

Subjects: Radiography Radiotherapy

Publisher: New York : Macmillan

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

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the stomach walls secondarjto pyloric obstruction. of the stomach shadow. The right lateral portion is of value inthese cases. A variation in the technique is described by Schwartz, inwhich he employs a watery solution of bismuth in small quantity. It isused with the patient on the back. The patient is then turned gently firston one side and then on the other, and finally on the abdomen. This is tocoat the mucosa, so that shallow ulcers will retain a small amount of bismuthwhen the patient stands erect. He has succeeded in this manner in locatingsmall ulcers on the posterior wall of the stomach. The simple ulcer is themost difficult to demonstrate, and is frequently missed altogether. Theflorid or indurated ulcer, either with or without erosion, is also very difficultto recognise, as are also ulcers situated in the pyloric canal or in the neigh-bourhood. Except in rare cases of perforating ulcer, the X-ray picture isnot definite. The diagnosis must be based on the obstructive signs :

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PLATE LXVIII.—Stomach showing PyLonic Stenosis;. The stomach shows a niarkeil decree of ptosis. a, Marked dehiy in eiiiptviiig caused by cicatricial contraction resulting from healed gastric ulcer. h, Four hours after—food taken. Shows food passing along duodenum. -• Eitrht hours after—food still in stomach. The organ is not now contracting well.

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