Identifier: americanquarterl02amer (find matches)
Title: American quarterly of roentgenology
Year: 1909 (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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PNEUMOTHORAX SHOWING PARADOXICAL DIAPHRAGM. Sidney Lange. This plate is of especial interest because it shows a pure pneumo-thorax without any fluid or pus in the pleural cavity. The uppercontour of the diaphragm is thus revealed. A comparison of thediaphragm contour of the two sides shows clearly the conditionknown as paradoxical diaphragm upon the affected side. It is low,has a concave instead of convex upper contour and executes paradox-ical excursions, i. e., rises in inspiration and descends in expiration. The collapsed lung is held by an adhesion at the apex. The op-posite lung is infiltrated with tubercles.
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SPINAL ABSCESS IN THE LOWER DORSAL REGION. Sidney Larige, Cincinnati. The patient, a girl aged 21, sought medical attention because ofa fluctuating swelling in the right inguinal region. X-ray examina-tion was requested to discover possible cause of this psoas abscess.There was some indefinite pain and stiffness in spine, but patient wasable to move about, and bend the spine, etc., without much discom-fort. Some muscular rigidity and a slight prominence of the spinousprocess of the 10th dorsal vertebra attracted attention to this partof the spine. A close examination of the original plate revealed a fusion ofthe bodies of the 10th and 11th vertebra. The surrounding abscesscould be distinctly traced, on the negative, through the diaphragmand into th.e psoas sheath. Editorial £95 means of measuring and controlling it in order to use it tobest advantage and with the minimum of risk to the patientand himself; but whose medical training and Roentgenologicexperience, on the other hand, qua

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