The Roentgen rays in medicine and surgery as an aid in diagnosis and as a therapeutic agent; designed for the use of practitioners and students (1903) (14571675399)

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Title: The Roentgen rays in medicine and surgery as an aid in diagnosis and as a therapeutic agent; designed for the use of practitioners and students

Year: 1903 (1900s)

Authors: Williams, Francis H. (Francis Henry), 1852-1936

Subjects: Radiotherapy Radiography Radiography, Thoracic

Publisher: New York : The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd.

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

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tween the phalanges and the epiphyses,and a great increase in the bulk of the soft structure of the hands, andin one case, of the feet. Murray suggests that the union of the epiphy-ses may have been arrested by some other cause than the acromegalia. Oudin and Barthelemy have also reported on the use of the X-rays inacromegalia. New Growths. — New growths which in any way interfere with thebony structure, as, for example, a growth which might cause disintegra-tion of the spinal column, may be recognized indirectly by an X-rayexamination; that is, the changes in the bones could be recognized byan X-ray photograph, but the cause of the change would be decided bymeans of other signs and symptoms. New growths which are formed in the soft tissues, such as carci- inoma and sarcoma, have already been referred to in connection with the > 1 Trans. Clin. Soc, London, XXXII, pp. 244-247. 2 Acromegaly with Goitre, and Exophthalmic Goitre, Edinburgh Medical Journal,February, 1897, pp. 170-174.

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Fig. 336. Osteosarcoma of humerus. Patient of Dr. Bolles in 1896. The fluorescent screen andradiograph showed great enlargement of humerus and shaggy outline. The patient was lying on hisback when the radiograph was taken, with the tube above him and a little inside the humerus; thatis, toward the median line of the body. Dr. Bolles considered that this was an osteosarcoma of thehumerus.

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