Identifier: americanjournroen08ameruoft (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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Fig. 7 (Patient 11495). Diffuse and irregular densi-ties in lungs accompanying syphilis of heart andaorta, probably due to active lung disease. ology of lung syphilis, and we can far betterfound our conclusions on our own investiga-tions. Any such conclusions regarding acombination of syphilis and tuberculosis inthe lung must give full consideration to thedifferences between an active, svphilitic in-flammation, and the mild, slow fibrosis of oldor latent syphilis. Tuberculosis and syphilis mav occursimultaneously in the same lung, each pro-ducing its own lesions, which frequentlv canbe distinguished on the radiograph. Sinceeach of these shadows have been described,it is not necessarv to dwell further on them. The two diseases may also occur as a truesymbiosis. This peculiar condition was firstbrought to the writers attention by the publi-cation of the researches of Dr. Carl Speng-ler,^ of Davos, in whose papers we foundan adequate explanation for the brillianttherapeutic results of \\

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