Interstate medical journal (1917) (14597078289)

Identifier: interstatemedica2419unse (find matches)
Title: Interstate medical journal
Year: 1917 (1910s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis, : Interstate Medical Journal
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities



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cecum has emptied before a retro-cecal appendix will show.Fig. 2 did not fill until about the 70th hour, this of course neces-sitating many exposures (17). The twenty-four-hour plate gen-erally shows the appendix. The screen, associated with palpation,aids in diagnosing adhesions with reference to the appendix andpoint tenderness. Case Reports. Every normal appendix will fill, see Fig. 1. The statement that any ap-pendix should be totally obliterated after 35 years may be true, but still needsproof. The age of this case was 42 years. Fig. 2. Male, aged 63, previous attacks of appendicitis. Roentgen diagnosis:—Obliterative appendicitis with adhesions. Operated March 24, 1916, byDr. J. N. Warren and the diagnosis confirmed. Fig. 3. Female, aged 39, complaint indigestion. Physical examination.—Tender right iliac fossa. Roentgen diagnosis:—Chronic adhesive appendicitis.Operative diagnosis confirmatory. No attacks of indigestion since (ten months). Shuman: Appendix Roentgenology 691
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Fig. 2.—Roentgen diagnosis, adhesive and obliterative appendicitis (A). Thisexposure at the ninety-sixth hour. Diagnosis confirmed at operation. 692 INTERSTATE MEDICAL JOURNAL