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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. i. The left half of the colon and all of the trans-verse colon are empty of barium, puddling in thecaput cecum being marked. old, much of it was offered by surgeonsto advance surgical therapy, and butlittle that is worth while has come fromthe internists. Perhaps the best singlearticle is that of Behans* which draws Fig. 3. The cecum may be displaced downward wellover the pelvic brim with torsion of the caput fromweight of the barium. This is shown with generalst.isis in the colon, but puddling in the caput isdistinctive. always exist with so-called cecal stasis,may occur when the rest of the rightcolon drains practically well enough, and
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Fig. 2. In some cases there is some residue ,irrtheascending colon, this being sparse and scattered(cecal stasis), but in which, nevertheless, markedpuddling in the caput coli is distinct. attention to adventitious bands in connec-tion with stasis of the cecum and chronicappendicitis, presenting the operative sideof the subject. * Behan. Cecal stasis and its relationship to append-icitis. Perm. M. J., Dec, 1920. Fig. 4. Another case in which a clysma had been given-It will be noted here that the transverse and rightcolon contain bismuth from the clysma, but thepuddling of the barium of the day before is plainlyvisible (arrow pointing). clinically it appears to be of more thancasual roentgenological interest in sympto-matic ways, although the symptoms cannotbe sharply differentiated from colonicstasis in a general way. 517 518 Case of Kohlers Disease The easiest way to observe the conditionis to follow the method employed at theMayo clinic of having the patient takebarium six hours bef

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