| Abstrakt: |
In the two cases here presented, roentgenographic visualization of the arteries and veins in the region of arteriovenous fistulas was obtained by the use of diodrast, one of the iodine-containing solutions manufactured primarily to be used in excretory urography. CASE 1. —A Negress, aged 17 years, was stabbed in the upper third of the left arm with an icepick, Sept. 14, 1936. Almost immediately a thrill and a loud, continuous bruit with systolic accentuations were found present over the medial surface of the swollen and ecchymotic arm. The radial pulse on this side was weaker than on the other. Five days later the circumference of the left arm 15 cm. above the olecranon was 25 cm., and of the normal arm 20 cm. The venous pressure on the left was 235 mm. (1 per cent sodium citrate); on the right, 60 mm.Nine days after admission, the brachial vessels were occluded |
