The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine (1906) (14757212692)

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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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of the pineal. The deposits of brain sand in the falx cere-bri, the so-called psammoma, should not beconsidered as the same type as a pineal calci-fication. Some pathologists classify them as atrue bone tumor or osteoma. Under the third heading, and this is probablythe least important, is the calcium deposit inthe walls of the blood vessels, especially thecircle of Willis. NEW ROENTGENOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUE FOR THESTUDY OF THE THYROID* By GEORGE E. PFAHLER, M.D. PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA IV/T Y experience in the study of the thy-^^■* roid roentgenographically, heretofore,has been generally unsatisfactory. I haveseen no description of technic;ue that reallydemonstrates the outline of the thyroid ex-cept in very large thyroids or in the large

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Fin. I. P.24454-D. Mr. J. S. Carcinoma of theThyroid. Note the size of the thyroid, but particu-larly the irregular compression of the esophagus. substernal thyroids. These have been studiedin the postero-anterior position, especiallyby Drs. Crotti and Bowen in their excellentpaper presented before this Society in 1913.^Since so large a number of the hyperthy-roid cases are sent for roentgenotherapy, be-cause of the excellent therapeutic resultsobtained in the treatment of toxic goiters, 1 Crotti, Andre. The roentgen ray in intrathoracicgoiter and thymus hyperplasia. /. Am. M. Assn.,Jan. II, IQ13, p. 117. *Read at the Twenty-first Annual Meeting of The American we have an excellent opportunity for a care-ful study of this group of patients. There-fore, in February of this year I determinedto investigate these cases as thoroughly aspossible roentgenographically, and havefinally developed a technicpe that is almostuniversally satisfactory, because one can, bythis method, demonstrate not

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