The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine (1906) (14570926499)

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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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f decreased density nearthe styloid process of the left ulna and sty-loid process is blunted. The right ulna alsoshows the beginning of a similar change.The base of the proximal phalanyx of thesecond finger of the right hand shows a A-Ray Studies in Gout 455 notched appearance. Bruces nodes are pres-ent in the first, second and third fingers ofthe left hand and in the first and fifth of theright. Suuiuiary of the radiographic findings:The changes are atrophic, destructi^•e andsomewhat symmetrical, with very few prolif-erative changes. The destructive changes areof the nature of small, punched-out areas of hand has been amputated proximal to thedistal phalangeal joint. Bone atrophy is pres-ent in varying degrees in all the phalangesand in the bones in the region of the nodularthickenings are many exostoses, the bonesthemselves showing circular and irregularareas of decreased density. The phalangealjoints in these regions show narrowing ofthe joint spaces, the articulating surfaces of

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Fig. 5. C.\SE III. decreased density, the exception being theright little finger where the joint is also de-stroyed, apparently due to extension of anarea of decreased density involving this part. Case 3. G. W. L. Med. No. 2929. \Miite.male, aged sixty-eight. A-ray No. 210. Diag-nosis: Gout; tophi. Hands: In the examination of the handsthe right five and the left second and fourthfingers show marked nodular thickening ofthe soft parts. The third finger of the right

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