Radiography, X-ray therapeutics and radium therapy (1916) (14755193381)

Identifier: radiographyxrayt00knox (find matches)

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

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Fig 176. Opaque meal in ileum and caecum, five hoursafter ingestion. Stomach was completely emptied.Note the contracted ileum entering caecum, dilata-tion behind tin- contraction, ami stasis of food in smallintestine. Figs. 17*i ami 177 being reproduced frompositives the position of the caecum is reversed.

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PLATE XLVI) -Stomaob showing. Obstruction at Pyi.outs. a, Stomach showing marked delay in emptying time, due to cicatricial < traction at pylorus. Diag-nosis, pyloric ulcer, confirmed .-it operation. //, Showing prolonged delay .-it pylorus. Note irregular outline and narrow channel. Diagnosis,carcinoma of pylorus, operable. Confirmed at operation, tumour excised. c, Marked delay in emptying of stomach, narrow channel connecting stomach and duodenum.Diagnosis, cicatricial contraction a1 pylorus, due to gastric ulcer, confirmed at operation. THE SMALL INTESTINE 231 attain to a diameter equal to that of the colon, the obstruction producingthese changes being generally chronic in its nature, and the result of malig-nant or tubercular disease, or of adhesions or contractions due to chronicappendicitis, or other inflammations of the caecum and colon. These kinkshave been described by Sir Arbuthnot Lane, and demonstrated by Dr.Jordan by means of the bismuth meal. It is worthy of note tha

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