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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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pe,to determine how much of the point is imbedded.The esophagus is easily torn, and great care must beused. that more roentgenologists should takeup this work to relieve the shortage ofskilled operators. Following my first big case, reportedabove, I had quite a series of foreign bodiesin the esophagus, all successfully removedby means of forceps, under fluoroscopicexamination. At the Detroit meeting, in1910, I read a paper on the Removal olMetallic Foreign Bodies from the Esopha-gus bv Means of Forceps and Fluoro-scope. In this paper, reports were made ot2 cases of open safetv pins in the esophagus,with their points up, being successfully removed. . . , . Following this meeting, I was invited b\Dr. Jackson, who had heard ot my work,to visit him at Pittsburgh. We discussedthe advisability of combining the twomethods, i.e., using the roentgen ray andthe esophagoscope together. 1 worked this «out, and at the Richmond meeting, in iqi 1, Foreign Bodies in the Bronchus and Esophagus ~<C
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Fig. 3. A bent safety pin, swallowed by an insanepatient, was lying in the esophagus, with the pointpenetrating the posterior wall of the trachea. Aftera careful study of both views, the pin was removed inonly a few seconds, without an anesthetic. Fig. 4. A long bone in the esophagus. Foreignbodies in the upper part of the esophagus can best beshown by a lateral view, with the patient lying onthe back without a pillow, with the chin high up andshoulders pulled down, making the neck as long aspossible. The rays pass through the neck horizontally,while the plate is held at the side of the neck with sand-bags. Usually the first eight vertebrae can be shown.

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