The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine (1906) (14734671766)

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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

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sease;Is bilateral obliteration of sacroiliac joints,sacrum with both ilia, evidently the result uniform degree of shadow. Both thesacral and the iliac surfaces follow eachother from upper to lower margins of thejoint. This joint is peculiar in its anatomy,in that its general direction extends frombehind, forward and outward, varying indegree of angle with the build and sex ofpatient. The anterior joint line, in general,is from above downward, parallel to thevertical axis of the bodw The line of articul-ation is usually curved outwards, the upperand lower points being approximatelyequidistant from the median line. Theposterior articular edges of the loint areseen mainly in its lower half, the upper Sacroiliac Arthrosis Obliterans .191 portion failing to give a definite joint-line the sharpness of the joint edges, theseshadow in most cases, because this portion appearing to be somewhat hazy in shadowis more nearly at right angles to the line detail. This may be said to be due to local-

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FiG. 3. Patient, male, aged twenty-nine. Complains of stiff back. No history Joflocalized joint infection. A-iay rexeals bilateral total loss ol articular surfaces andresulting synarthrosis. This is a frequent sequence ol a joint infection in which destruc-tion of articular surfaces and interarticular structures occurs. of .v-ray; that is, it faces anteriorly, andthus no shadow of its surface is obtained. ized edema and swelsurface tissues as well ing of the articularas the mterarticular

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