American quarterly of roentgenology (1909) (14777299123)

Bronchial tree injected with bismuth paste

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Title: American quarterly of roentgenology

Year: 1909 (1900s)

Authors: American Roentgen Ray Society

Subjects: Nuclear Medicine Radiography Radiology Radiology

Publisher: Pittsburgh : American Roentgen Ray Society

Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

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Beck: Stereoscopic Radiography L63 To explain the displacement of the air within the bronchiwe can only assume that it has been forced into the partiallycollapsed air vesicles. Comparing the distribution of branches of this bronchialtree with the perplexing streak shadows of our chest radio-graphs, one is struck by the resemblance of their course, and.in fact, accurate measurements demonstrate that these streaksare undoubtedly the shadows of our bronchial tree. We rind,for instance, in practically all cases where this bronchialshadow is present, a triangle, the base of which is formed bythe lower border of the fourth rib, the apex pointing to thefifth rib, just about two inches from the border of the spinalcolumn. Anyone may convince himself of this fact by lookingover the chest plates taken in the past, or by looking throughthe atlas, or past numbers of journals which contain hundredsof such chest radiographs. There are other landmarks whichcorrespond to the branches of the bronchi,

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