The Roentgen Diagnosis of Retrocecal Appendix
| Autor: | Ivan M. Woolley, Frank E. Butler |
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| Rok vydání: | 1938 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Pelvic organ business.industry Retrocecal appendix Lumen (anatomy) Roentgen medicine.disease Appendix Appendicitis Surgery symbols.namesake medicine.anatomical_structure Pathognomonic Barium solution medicine symbols Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radiology business |
| Zdroj: | Radiology. 31:713-715 |
| ISSN: | 1527-1315 0033-8419 |
| DOI: | 10.1148/31.6.713 |
| Popis: | MUCH has been written about the use of the roentgen ray in the diagnosis of appendicitis. Certain writers are of the opinion that a failure to obtain a filling of the appendix is pathognomonic of appendiceal pathology. Others have held that a patent lumen which readily admits the barium solution and permits a good filling of the appendix is not normal. Some place great stress upon a fragmented filling as an indication of pathology. Any and all of these points may be of value when properly fitted to other clinical and physical findings, but they do not represent the chief usefulness of the roentgen ray in this particular field. The surgeon finds but little use for the x-ray in the diagnosis of appendicitis, except in those cases in which the symptoms do not clearly point to that diagnosis. Inflammatory pathology of the gall bladder, pelvic organs, or kidney occasionally simulates the symptoms of appendicitis and at times the reverse is also true. Congenital bands or other abnormalities, when present, may o... |
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