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Title: Interstate medical journal
Year: 1917 (1910s)
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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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-Fig. 4.—Roentgen diagnosis, chronic appendicitis. Exposure at twenty-fourhours. Note improperly filled, clubbed, and twisted appendix. Diagnosisconfirmed at operation. Shaman: Appendix Roentgenology 693
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Fig. 6.—Note string-like, interrupted, and crooked shadow of appendix. 694 INTERSTATE MEDICAL JOURNAL Fig. 4. Male, aged 28, referred for ulcer treatment. Roentgen examina-tion showed the stomach and duodenum normal, but the appendix as illustrated,imperfectly filled, kinked and with a clubbed extremity. This diagnosis wasconfirmed at operation. Fig. 5. Female, aged 46, complaint, pain in both upper and lower rightabdomen. Roentgen diagnosis:—Gall stones and chronic appendicitis. Atoperation seven cholesterol stones were found which corresponded in size andshape to the shadows read, also six real small ones. The appendix was con-sidered by the surgeon as pathologic and removed. Fig. VI. Male, aged 38, complaint, colicky attacks of pain across abdomenfrom right to left. Note the thread like interrupted shadow, read as appendix.Case not yet operated upon. In conclusion, the roentgen ray is of great service in diagnosingchronic appendicitis. The roentgen ray is not advocated for thos

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