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Identifier: radiographyxray00knox (find matches)
Title: Radiography, x-ray therapeutics and radium therapy
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Knox, Robert, 1868?-1928
Subjects: Radiography Radiotherapy
Publisher: New York, Macmillan
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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ilitated by administering small pledgets of moistened cotton wool. Themost usual spot at which to find a foreign body blocking the intestine is theileo-caecal valve. When a foreign body has been located in the alimentarytract the patient should be screened and radiographed at regular intervals.The body is thus kept under rigid observation, and should an operationbecome necessary it can be conducted with the least possible delay. Stereo-scopic radiographs taken immediately prior to an operation, or the use ofX-rays at the time of operation, when the fluorescent screen may be usedfrom time to time, will be found useful as a guide to the surgeon. By theformer method the object may be located with fair accuracy ; by the lattermethod the operator may be able to guide his instruments to the foreignbody. Work of this special character requires to be carried out in the darkunder aseptic conditions. The top of the couch must be made aseptic andthe fluorescent screen one that can be sterilised.
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PLATE XLVIII.—Opaque Enema in Colon. a, Bismuth enema, showing rectum, pelvic colon, sigmoid flexure, splenic flexure, transverse colon,hepatic flexure, and caecum, b. Same after partial evacuation. The two plates (« and h) were taken in thehorizontal position ; when the patient assumed the vertical position the transverse colon formed a distinctloop with the convexity towards the pelvis, c, Marked delay in descending colon. From a case of oId-struction of the colon on left side. At operation the colon was found to be stretched over an enlargedkidney, which contained fluid. THE X RAY EXAMINATION OF THE URINARY TRACT Radiography has now attained to an important position in the examina-tion of the urinary tract. From a diagnostic point of view the informationit gives is of the highest importance. Every case of suspected disease shouldbe thoroughly examined before surgical interference is decided upon. Incases of suspected urinary calculus it is of great service in determining (1)the

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