Journal of roentgenology (1919) (14734393976)

Identifier: journalofroentge2191west (find matches)

Title: Journal of roentgenology

Year: 1919 (1910s)

Authors: Western Roentgen Society

Subjects: Radiology

Publisher: Iowa City, Iowa : Western Roentgen Society, 1918-1919

Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library

Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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nfected antra of highmore in ninety, infectedteeth in forty-two, infected frontal sinuses in fourteen,infected ethmoids in fourteen, atrophic rhinitis in four,chronic otitis media in six. Altogether, foci of infectionwere demonstrated in two hundred eighty-three cases, orforty-two per cent of the patients with abnormal colons. Local infections which might be considered the result ofintoxication were associated as follows: Chronic endo, or myo, or pericarditis, eighteen times;sclerosis of arch of aorta, thirty-three times; osteo arth-ritis, thirteen times; hyperthyroidism, six times. A strik-ing feature of the thirty-three cases showing sclerosis of thearch of the aorta is that not one of these gave a positiveWasserman reaction. THE JOURNAL OF ROENTGENOLOGY RESULT OF WASSEKMAX TEST Of these six hundred seventy abnormalities, the Washer-man test was done in one hundred seventy-five, of whichonly eleven were positive, showing the rarity of associationbetween syphilis and colon pathology.

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Figure 13 BLOOD FINDINGS The average leucocyte count in six hundred examinationsof patients with abnormal colons was ten thousand, a mod-erate leucocytosis, such as might be expected in a chronicinfective process. Only seventeen cases (or two per cent)were associated with anemia. FLH)ROS(OPI( ANALYSIS — (ARTER :)77 TUBERCULIN REACTION Our routine practice is to give a tuberculin reaction testin all cases where the symptomatology and clinical and

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