Identifier: americanjournroen09ameruoft (find matches)
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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operates and finds definite gall-bladderpathology and cholesterin stones, he is aptto discount your work more than he is entitledto, merely because vou didnt report the stones;so we always report pathologic gall-bladderwith or without stones. It is my opinion hornmany conversations with Dr. George that hehas been misunderstood when he has beenquoted as savin- that he could diagnose 00 percent of gall-stones. I think what he meant wasthat he could diagnoes 00 per cent ot pathologicgall-bladders. THE ROENTGEN RAY IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF SCOLIOSIS* BY FRANK W. LAMB, M.D. PORTLAND, MAINE BEFORE entering upon a discussion ofthe value of the x-ray examination as a diagnostic agent in scoliosis, it is necessa ry toconsider at some length its pathology, andto emphasize the fact that the so-called the column, with structural changes in theparts entering into it, together with arotation of the bodies of the vertebraeon their vertical axes. The rotation of thebodies is always toward the convexit\ of
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Fig. i . A-ray of model standing, showing spine straight. functional or habitual scoliosis, which isnot a deformity but simply a normalphysiological posture, is to be in no wayconfounded with the term scoliosis used inthis paper. True scoliosis is a fixed deformity of thespine, characterized by a lateral bending of • Thesis presented with application for membership to The American Roentgen Ray Society in 1020. 723 Fig. 2. X-ray of model lying on table, showing an ap-parent scoliosis. the curve with the greatest amount ofrotation at its apex. The lateral bending of the spine may beeither to the right or to the left, and theremay be a single curve, or more than one.In the latter case, the curves are in oppositedirections. -24 The Roentgen Ray in the Diagnosis of Scoliosis

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