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Title: The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Radium Society American Roentgen Ray Society
Subjects: Radiotherapy X-rays
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. C.C. Thomas
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ttle Stomach 167 about fifteen minutes, which reheved thepain. Test meal: blood, o; lactic acid, o; freeHCl, o; total acidity, 14. Roentgen examination showed a peculiardeformity involving the pyloric half of thestomach. (Fig. 3.) This region appeared tobe infiltrated, together with the pyloric ringwhich is held open allowing the food to passout of the stomach in a most remarkablemanner. At the sixth hour there was a smallresidue high up in the cardiac end of thestomach. Syphilis of the stomach was diag- had ceased and weight had been gained.Roentgen examination showed the peculiardeformity of the stomach persisting and atthe sixth hour there was a small residue atthe cardiac end of the stomach. ^larch I, 1915, patient remarkably im-proved, had gained forty-four pounds inweight, and was entirely free from pain andvomiting. Roentgen examination showed thedeformitv at the pyloric end of the stomachstill persisting and the stomach emptying ata very rapid rate. (Fig. 5.) At the sixth hour
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Fig. 4. Case II. (Same case as Figures 3 and 5.)Syphilis. (Aged Twexty-three.) Confirmatoryexamination. Five minutes after meal. nosed and a Wassermann examination ad-vised. It was reported four plus. On October 5, 1914, a confirmatory ex-amination was made. This duplicated thefinding of a peculiar deformity involving thepyloric half of the stomach causing a consid-erable narrowing of the lumen, an appear-ance which is characteristic of syphilis of thestomach. (Fig. 4.) On November 11, 1914,another examination was made after the pa-tient had been placed on anti-spyhilitic treat-ment following the findings of a positiveWassermann reaction. Nausea and vomitino Fig. 5. Case II. (Same case as Figures 3 and 4.)Syphilis. (Aged Twenty-three.) Five monthsafter medical treatment. Ten minutes after meal.Cessation of symptoms. Increase in size of stomachwith less rapid emptying. there was a very small residue in the cardiacend of the stomach, very much as in theearlier examination. February 16,

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