Radiography, X-ray therapeutics and radium therapy (1916) (14571637228)

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Title: Radiography, X-ray therapeutics and radium therapy

Year: 1916 (1910s)

Authors: Knox, Robert, 1868-1928

Subjects: Radiography Radiotherapy Radium

Publisher: New York : Macmillan

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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PLATE III. Skills SHOWING DEPARTURES PROM THE NORMAL, a, Lateral view of .skull, showing erosion of occipital bone the result of injury with secondarydisease of bone. Note large frontal sinuses. b, Skull in a child, showing moulding of the cranial bones resulting from intracranial pressure. c, skull from a case of tumour of the brain, situated at the sella turcica; the detail in the region is lost.

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PLATE IV.—Lower Jaw and Cervical Region. a, Dentigerous cyst in lower jaw (buried tooth).b, Fracture through ramus of lower jaw.Skull showing good detail in soft parts, absence of teeth, calcined cervical glandsd, Bismuth food in stricture at upper end of (esophagus. THE LOWER JAW 129 In the region of the neck the cervical vertebrae are shown in profile, thestyloid process extending downwards and forwards between the cervicalvertebrae and the descending ramus of the lower jaw. The zygomatic archis seen extending forwards on the lateral aspect of the face. The superiormaxilla gives an irregular shadow and the anterior shows a clear space, thenasal bones are faintly outlined in profile, and the lower jaw is also shown inits lateral aspect. (4) The Lower Jaw is an important bone, and rather difficult to demon-strate satisfactorily. It may be shown by two methods : (a) showing thewhole of the bone in a skiagram of the face ; (b) portions of the bone may bedemonstrated by placing a film

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