Identifier: americanquarterl02amer (find matches)
Title: American quarterly of roentgenology
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: American Roentgen Ray Society
Subjects: Nuclear Medicine Radiography Radiology Radiology
Publisher: Pittsburgh : American Roentgen Ray Society
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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ection of the lung until May, 1909, when he noticed a dailyrise of his temperature, and loss of weight. In July, 1909, herequested an examination because of loss of strength- andfifteen pounds in weight. Aside from the positive Pirquet testand loss of weight, with daily elevation of temperature to99.6°, we could find no symptoms indicating tuberculosis. Thestereo-radiograph, however, clearly showed an infiltration inboth apices (Stereo 3). The patient was kept in Chicago fortwo weeks for observation, during which time he developed aslight cough and further loss in weight, his temperature risingto 100° every evening. He was advised to go to Colorado,where our diagnosis was confirmed and proper treatmentinstituted. In this case the radiograph was the deciding factor in theearly recognition of the pulmonary disease. The cloudiness inthe apex indicated that the disease was not sufficiently ad-vanced to produce any signs which could have been discovered C0 HPi mO zo m 2H Hc CD mao crO 55
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