Radiography and radio-therapeutics (1917) (14757816252)

Identifier: radiographyradio01knox (find matches)
Title: Radiography and radio-therapeutics
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Knox, Robert, 1868-1928
Subjects: Radiography Radiotherapy
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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Fig. 305.—Radiogram showing opaque meal iu the stomach, jejumim, andileum. Exposure y^jf of a second. of the ileimi may be the result of an obstruction at the ileo-csecal valve orin its vicinity, when there is a delay in the passage of food to a marked degree.Malignant or inflammatory strictures may be shown, while the ileum mayattain to a diameter equal to that of the colon, the obstruction producingthese changes being generally chronic in its nature, and the result of malig-nant or tubercular disease, or of adhesions or contractions due to chronic
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PLATE LXXI.—Opacjde Enkma in Colon. a, Bisniutli enema, showing rectum, pelvic colon, sigiiioil flexuie, splenic Hexiire, transverse colon,hepatic flexure, and caecum, b. Same after partial evacuation. Tlie two plates ((/ and //) were taken inthe horizontal position ; when the patient assumed the vertical position tlie transverse colon formed a dis-tinct loop with the convexity towards the pelvis, c, Opaque food in colon showing marked delay in de-scending colon. From a case of obstruction of the colon on lett side, thought to be due to new growth.At operation the colon was found to be stretched over an eidarged kidney, which contained fluid. Theappearance of the narrowed lumen of descending colon simulated a stenosis of the bowel. THE SMALL INTESTINE 3G1 appendicitis, or other inflammations of the csecum and colon. These kinks