The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine (1906) (14755176304)

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Title: The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine

Year: 1906 (1900s)

Authors: American Radium Society American Roentgen Ray Society

Subjects: Radiotherapy X-rays

Publisher: Springfield, Ill. C.C. Thomas

Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto

Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Fig. I. Fractured Lamixa of First Lumbar.PRESSiox OF Second. Com- 62 Bucky Diaphragm Principle in Spine Radiography our spine cases have been handled by thismethod, and in the last months all of the kid-ney and gall-bladder cases. The net results of the method are to giveus plates which show a heightened contrastbetween bony and other structures, and agreater clearness in the more delicate struc-tures of the spine complex in as large a sec-tion of the spine as is desired. It necessarily plates. We believe that shortly the Buckydiaphragm method will form a basis for ob-taining results on the spine which are en-tirely comparable to those obtained on theextremities, and at this time we wish torecord systematically a number of respectsin which the method has materially helpedus in our diagnostic efforts: I. In the recognition of tuberculosis and

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Fig. 2. A Few Fractured Spines Showing Large Scope of Exploration without Sacrifice OF Radiographic Quality. follows that the gross lesions can be studiedmore comprehensively and the minor or be-ginning lesions brought to light with greatercertainty. In the latter years we have all be-come used to seeing the most critical radio-graphs of the extremity bones, and we shallall admit, when we stop to think, that inthe most important spine cases the diagno-sis is often made possible by the last lo or20 per cent in the technical excellence of the metastatic carcinoma. Early tuberculosisand beginning metastasis are deservedly sub-jects which give the roentgenologist greatconcern on account of their clinical signifi-cance and general difficulty of recognition.The large comprehensive plates have morethan once yielded unexpected information afew inches higher or lower than was clini-cally suspected. Slight or suspicious changesin any anterior portion of the vertebral body Bucky Diaphragm Princi

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1906

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