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Title: Röntgen ray diagnosis and therapy
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Beck, Carl, 1856-1911
Subjects: Radiotherapy Diagnosis, Radioscopic
Publisher: New York, London, D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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—Arteriosclerosis. phlebosderosis (fibrous degeneration of the tunica intima) beingnearly as frequent as arteriosclerosis, but as a rule being of a lesserextent. Calcareous deposits in the veins are sometimes reportedas vein-stones, or phleboliths. But that there is a degenerationof the intima which shows real osseous structures seems not tohave found any attention. Fig. 59 shows the presence of per-fect osseous texture in the saphenous vein, as well as in the be-ginning of its ramifications, in a lady of fifty-six years. Dr.Ludwig Weiss, of New York City, to whom the author is indebtedfor observing the case, found that the patient had suffered fromvaricose veins of both lower extremities for thirty years. Therewere frequent attacks of thrombophlebitis followed by dilatation 98 THE RONTGEtf RAYS as well as by cicatrization, the latter causing the signs of phlebitisobliterans on various portions. There was also a large ulcer fromwhich profuse hemorrhage had taken place several times.
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Fig. 59.—Osseous Degeneration of the Saphenous Vein.«, Internal saphenous vein—late stage; b, same—early stage; c, small saphenous vein. The patient suffering continuously from more or less pro-nounced inflammatory condition, and consequently from oedemaand induration, extirpation of the varicous areas was advised. On CHEST 99 removing them the author found a number of thrombi in thedilated veins which on some portions resembled aneurysmatic sacs.The hard consistency of the thickened portions induced him tomake them the object of skiagraphic exposure. The anatomicalinformation obtained from such skiagraphic examination seems tobe of practical value. Whenever the Rontgen rays show the presenceof osseous degeneration, it is obvious that the much favored meth-ods of using massage, which is so effective in arteriosclerosis, lacedstockings, elastic bandages, injections into the circumvascular tis-sues, or ignipuncture represent not only futile, but directly danger-ous efforts, the o

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