Diseases of the kidneys, ureters and bladder, with special reference to the diseases of women (1922) (14579457027)
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Identifier: diseasesofkidney01kell (find matches)
Title: Diseases of the kidneys, ureters and bladder, with special reference to the diseases of women
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Kelly, Howard A. (Howard Atwood), 1858-1943 Brödel, Max, 1870-1941 Burnam, Curtis Field, 1877-
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Publisher: New York, London : D. Appleton and company
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Fig. 161.—Hadiographic Diagram Showing Position of Kidney Stone in 100Cases. Each dot represents the center of a single stone or of a cluster of stones.Note high position, especially on left side. Note low position in one case of dis-placed kidney. Taken as a whole, the dots fairly outline the kidneys. A calcified tip to a transverse process may give a shadow like a stone inthe renal pelvis. This difficulty may be overcome by observing that other tipsare calcified on the same or on the other side, as well as by taking anotherpicture with the light placed more obliquely. In Figure 162 is shown the lo- CASES FOR USE OF X-RAY. 355 cation met with in 100 eases of ureteral stones. Compare this with Figure163 showing the location of 50 phleboliths. Sometimes the twelfth rib obscures a stone, as shown in Figure 1G4. In
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Fig. 162.—Composite Photograph of 100 Ureteral Stone Cases. Black dots rep-resent the position of ureteral stones. this case the difficulty was obviated by pulling up the margin of the ribs (seeFig. 165), and taking another picture when the stone was found standingalone. As Fenwick has pointed out, what appears to be a single stone may be a 356 METHODS OF ElVIPLOYING THE X-RAY IN DIAGNOSIS. group or patch of stones. In large branching stones the connecting branchesmay disappear, so that the picture shows only the mass in the renal pelvis andthe cusps which may be arranged on a curved line. A lot of stones arranged