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Identifier: interstatemedica1319unse (find matches)
Title: Interstate medical journal
Year: 1906 (1900s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis, : Interstate Medical Journal
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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emovements often give us a decided clue to some pathologic process thatotherwise would not have been observed, and then again after taking ageneral survey of the chest it is possible to obtain that position that willghre the best possible radiograph. .A great amount of distrust has been caused by some operators tryingto study too much detail in a given case and then again by trying to ex-plain it to those who cannot comprehend it. A better method is to givean opinion in language best understood by that individual. If the radiographer will work in harmony with the clinician manypoints of interest will arise and in some instances a positive diagnosis canbe made that by other methods alone would be impossible: and with alldue regard to those experts in physical diagnosis who claim that thismethod is superfluous, it might be suggested that if their cases werecarefully studied, in conjunction with the x-ray, mistakes, which slip by LEFT. ROENTGEN RAY IN EXAMINATIONS OF THE CHEST. 943RIGHT.
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Case of sarcoma; pedicle attached to diaphragm; patch of lung structure can be seenthrough the dense shadow which, when examined by the fluoroscope, still showedinflation. Heart shadow on right side, with large vessels to the neck. them, might he averted. The instances illustrate the practical value ofthis method in some obscure cases. Dr. John McLean asked to have the chest of a patient examined for asuspected tumor. The history was obscure, dullness extending over thewhole left chest and on the right side almost to the right axillary line.The patient had been in several of the larger hospitals of the city wherehis chest had been repeatedly punctured with the idea of relieving an ef-fusion ; however, they all resulted negatively. X-ray examinationsshowed that the dullness was due to a solid mass and not to liquid. Thiswas confirmed by a post-mortem examination about three months later,when a large tumor was removed that occupied the whole left chest, ex-tending well over into the rig

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