American quarterly of roentgenology (1906) (14754113191)

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Title: American quarterly of roentgenology
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Roentgen Ray Society
Subjects: Nuclear Medicine Radiography Radiology Radiology
Publisher: Pittsburgh : American Roentgen Ray Society
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and the National Endowment for the Humanities



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le. The bismuth mixture instead of fol-lowing the ordinary course described, spread out irreg-ularly over the inner surface of the stomach and persist-ently avoided certain areas, which on post-mortem ex-amination were found to correspond in general contourand location with nodulous deposits of the malignantgrowth. Although I have not yet been able to observethis condition myself, T am convinced of the diagnosticpossibilities of this procedure, in all cases of suspectednon-palpable as well as of palpable growths, in the stom-ach. Some of the pictures I shall have occasion to showlater reveal the rugae of the fundus where there is butlittle bismuth. It is at this stage of the examination,therefore, while the stomach is not so full as to obliterateall details of its walls, that we should look for their struc-tural alterations. Thus far the patient has not left his place. He willnow welcome the change to lie down on the examiningtable while he finishes the piece de resistance of the bis-
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To Illustrate the Presidents Address OF KOENTGENOLOGY. 7 muth meal, an ounce of the subnitrate in one pint of milk.In the horizontal position, gravity permitting the depositof the opaque substance in the upper two-thirds of thestomach, we take its outline before we let him up againfor the final examination, which will be in the erectposition. By turning the patient, placed horizontally,around the long axis of his body and examining himfrom both sides and above and below, we can fairly seeall around his stomach. For the dorso-ventral view, thepatient being on his back, the orthodiagraph may be ad-justed for use in the horizontal position and utilized withthe tube below. For examining the patient lying on theright side or the left, the apparatus is unsuitable, andwe allow for the distortion incident to focusing the targetperpendicularly to the dime fixed upon the back oppositeto the one fixed upon the navel. The bilateral view isbest obtained in the standing position, though it may betr