File:The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine (1906) (14734526256).jpg

Identifier: americanjournroen08ameruoft (find matches)
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

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
^ inches long.There is also a distinct increase in the mark-ings of the frontal bones on that side. Right Leg:: Normal. Blood30; Diastolic, 85. Blood Left Leg 78 Intracranial Calcification On reviewing the literature an exhaustivestudy of the subject was found in the JohnsHopkins Hospital Bulletin for October,1916, in which the entire subject of the useof the ,^-ray in brain tumor cases was takenup. The previously reported cases are re-viewed. They are seven in number, all fromthe foreign literature. To these are added sixof their own, found in a series of 100 casesclinically demonstrated brain tumors. calcification extended from the base upwardinto the brain substance, one case of aneur-ysm of the internal carotid artery, and twocases of calcification above and very close to the sella. In The American Journal of Roent-genology, 1916, III, is a report of a case byA. W. George, as follows: A man twenty-three years old. Stereoscopic plates of thehead made in the lateral position show an
Text Appearing After Image:
Fig. I. Showing Calcareous Mass in Left Side of Skull. In the cases reported in the foreign lit-erature Fittig observed three calcified areasin the walls of a cyst in an occipital lobe;Grunmach a calcified tumor in the pinealgland; Algygi a basal tumor with areas ofcalcification; Klineberger a tumor of the oc-cipito-parietal region; Steida a calcifiedcysticercus, and Strater a calcified brain ab-scess only recognized after operation ; Licht-heim a calcified gumma also not recognizeduntil after operation. Schiiller in his bookreports five cases all of which are calcifiedareas in the brain substance itself. Huerigand Dandys cases are as follows: One caseof calcification of the brain substance, onecase of calcification in the sella, one case of area of about 3 cm. in diameter, posterior to the sella, with apparently calcified walls. Thepatient had been injured in the head whileplaying football and was unconscious. Epi-leptic attacks began about eighteen monthsago. Operation showed a small

Note About Images