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Identifier: xraymanualusarmy00unit (find matches)
Title: X-ray manual : U.S. Army
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: United States. Surgeon-General's Office American Roentgen Ray Society
Subjects: X-rays Fractures Teeth Chest Heart Radiography
Publisher: New York : Middleditch
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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he more so if thereis real co-operation between X-ray specialist and surgeon.It is most important that sufficient opaque land marksbe provided to produce the stereoscopic effect from theskin surface. For instance the writer has used, forsome years past, a paste of lead oxide and vaseline tofill the normal skin markings of the hand and thusutilize the entire palm as a foreground by which needles,etc., may be localized. In larger parts a circle or crossof fuse wire at wound of entrance; a T of the same overa tender point, etc., will add materially to the efficiency.Again, if the foreign body is in close relation to somewell-known surgical land mark, e. g., in the glenoid fossa,the stereoscope would give the best information. Whatever we may concede as against plates for local-ization they still hold first place, easily, in the discoveryof smaller fragments and more especially when largerfragments are present in the same field. And, wheninfection is present and removal is sought for that
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Fig. 8. Hlrtz compass applied to the patient.

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