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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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ses; of abscess, in three cases. Abscess is necessarily the result of infec-tion. It seems remarkable, considering thedegree of inflammation and trauma, thatinfection does not follow more frequently.Of course, such a result will eventually 296 The Roentgen-Ray Diagnosis of Non-opaque Foreign Bodies occur if the foreign body remains longenough, regardless of the nature of theforeign body. Atelectasis of the entire right lung waspresent in F. B. No. 900, a bean lodging inthe right bronchus only one day. Theextreme displacement of the heart andmediastinal structures as well as the dia-phragm could not be explained in any other shadow of the left chest as being due tocomplete consolidation of the left lung.We believe that his excellent roentgeno-gram shows a definite degree of atelectasis.A completely consolidated lung should notdiminish in size and therefore not permitmarked displacement of the heart andcontraction of the left chest wall, such as isbeautifully shown in his roentgenogram.
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Fig. 6a. Fig. 66. Fig. 6. F. B. No. 900. Complete atelectasis of right lung. Note marked displacement of heart, amiremarkable return of function a few hours after removal of bean. Compensatory emphysema of leftlung before removal, (a) Inspiration before removal; (/)) Inspiration a few hours after removal. way. This lung was expanded to almost itsnormal capacity within a few hours afterremoval of the bean (Fig. 6, a, b). F. B.No. 904, a portion of peanut kernelproduced atelectasis of the left lower lobeand obstructive emphysema of the leftupper lobe (Fig. 7, a, b). In this instancethe atelectatic lobe contained a considerablequantity of secretions, but the markeddisplacement of the heart toward theaffected side determines clearly the ele-ment of atelectasis. Childs,1 in a report of six cases of foreignbodj in the respiratorj tract, cites twoinstances of navy bean as the intruder.In case No. 11 of his article, atelectasis waspresent. In his other bean case, No. Illof his report, he inte

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