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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
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eous, osteofibrous and vascularvarieties. The nature of the tissue change explains why theRoentgen method will only exceptionally be successful. Itshould, therefore, in order to avoid discrediting the Roentgentreatment, only exceptionally be tried in ordinary goitre. The disturbances caused by ordinary goitre are of a mechan-ical character, pressure by a large goitre, for instance, produc-ing lateral curvature of the trachea, followed by symptoms ofsuffocation. Then speedy strumectomy is imperatively neces-sary. In small goitres cosmetic considerations may indicateremoAal, although the condition of the patient be normalotherwise. In cystic goitre I have with rare exceptions suc-ceeded by aspirating the cystic fluid (generally consisting ofbloody serum) and injecting one-half ounce of a 10% emulsionof iodoform-glycerine in adults. The area of aspiration must *Read by title at the meeting of the American Roentgen Ray So-ciety, September 23d, 1909. LOO American Quarterly of Roentgenology
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Fig. 7—Unilocular cystic goitre containing bloody serum. be carefully selected in order to avoid the large superficialveins. As a rule the median line may be selected after a dropof Tr. Iodi. is applied at the point of entrance, Fig. 7. Some-times the cystic goitre disappears after one injection, as inthe one illustrated by Fig. 7, but as a rule it has to be repeatedthree or four times and, on an average, at weekly intervals. Inmultilocular cystic goitre (Fig. 8), the needle is best insertedat the center of the individual cyst. Sometimes they appearso hard on touch, that they leave the impression of beingfibrous. Beck: Ordinary and Exophthalmic Goitre 101 The fibrous, and especially the calcareous and osteotibrousvarieties, can be demonstrated by a Roentgen plate. I had theprivilege of first showing skiagraphs of the calcareous depositsin Beitrag zur Diagnostik unci Therapie der Struma,Fortschritte auf dem Gebiete der Roentgenstrahlen, Vol. IV(1900). The parenchymatous injections of

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