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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. 5. Position No. i. Position of the patient and ap-paratus to obtain best detail of the diaphragm, Hver,gallbladder and spleen. logical changes. The method was em-ployed by him after abdominal para-centesis in a case of hepatic cirrhosis withgood results. Systematic experiments for the purposeof rendering the liver accessible to roent-genology were carried out in 1914 byRautenberg, who introduced air by punc-ture into the abdominal cavity in diseasesof the liver, complicated by ascites. Herecommended the method as affordingremarkable inform.ation concerning theorgans situated below the diaphragm.Conditions such as carcinoma of the liver,sarcoma of the spleen, etc., were recog-nized by this procedure. He contributesfour interesting illustrations of lesioiis ofthis character. Meyer-Betz in a communication during1914 discussed the clinical importance ofroentgenograph ic representation of the
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Fig. 6. Obtained with Patient in Position No. i. Fig. 7. Obtained with Patient in Position No. i. /I.Liver; B. Diaphragms; C. Spleen; P. Coils of small .4. Liver; B. Diaphragms; C.-Spleen; D. Gallbladder; intestines: E. Descending colon. E. Barium-SUed splenic flexure. and liver with great detail, and to recog- liver by means of air or oxygen inflation nize the presence of tumors projecting of the peritoneal cavity. He called atten- above the surface as well as other patho- tion to the fact that correctly employed 536 Study of Abdominal Organs Following Oxygen Inflation this procedure affords valuable assistancein the early diagnosis of abdominal tumorsand their relation to the other organs inthe abdominal cavity. In November, 1918, Goetze, in apparentignorance of the former work on this sub-ject with the exception of Rautenberg,reported very remarkable roentgeno-graphic results concerning nearly all ofthe abdominal organs, obtained by fillingthe peritoneal cavity with oxygen beforema

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