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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. Showing Inverted Comma Along Both RightAND Left Border of Bronchus. Case of long-standing healed tuberculosis. region of Tendeloo. This region extendsfrom the 5th rib upward in the lung alongthe vertebral border as viewed on antero-posterior roentgenograms. This paraverte-bral area, Tendeloo describes as a regionof biochemic susceptibility. The lymphflow is here relatively slower and tuber-culosis of the lymphogenous type is likelyto originate in this region. According toTendeloo, human tuberculosis, in the over-whelming majority of cases is lymphog- enous, and it is here that we should look jfor the first signs of incipient disease. It is interesting to observe in this con-nection that in a certain proportion ofearly cases of tuberculosis the pulmonarylesion surrounds the comma so as to sug-gest it as the focus of extension. It maybe possible that the presence of an en-larged gland at this particular point inthe angle formed by the branching of thebronchus may exert sufficien

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