The Evolution of Early to Late Gall-Tract Disease
| Autor: | B. B. Vincent Lyon |
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| Rok vydání: | 1926 |
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| Zdroj: | Radiology. 6:279-285 |
| ISSN: | 1527-1315 0033-8419 |
| DOI: | 10.1148/6.4.279 |
| Popis: | OWING to the limitations of a short paper, it is obvious that any discussion of the medical diagnosis of gall-bladder disease must be the merest outline of the methods to be employed. Nor is it possible to discuss as fully as the subject justifies, the interpretation of findings by these various methods. Furthermore, it must be understood that too much emphasis in past years has been given disease of the gall bladder itself without sufficiently realizing the importance of recognizing what associated conditions are present in the liver and bile ducts, as well as those viscera whose veins empty into the portal circulation. For generations, history and physical examination was the limit of our diagnostic endeavor and must still remain the cornerstone in diagnosis. The introduction of sugery for the gall bladder, about sixty years ago, permitted visual and tactile proof of the grosser lesions. This pioneer work of a few surgeons gradually developed a larger surgical recognition of “living pathology.” This was... |
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