Negative diagnosis of surgical lesions of the stomach and cap / by Lewis Gregory Cole, M.D. Professor of Roentgenology in Cornell University Medical College.

  • Cole, Lewis Gregory, 1874-1954
Date:
1914
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Credit: Negative diagnosis of surgical lesions of the stomach and cap / by Lewis Gregory Cole, M.D. Professor of Roentgenology in Cornell University Medical College. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fig. 6. Stomach Normal—Chronic Appendicitis. ory. A Roentgenologic diagnosis of nega- ive cancer or nicer of the stomach or cap vas made. An extreme functional derange- nent of the stomach was observed and the )atient was advised to return for an examin- ition of the colon and appendix. Subse- pient examination showed a normal colon ind bismuth retention in the appendix. We vere then told that the clinical history was ibsolutely typical of gastric ulcer, and were )ffered an opportunity to hedge; but we ‘stood pat on a negative diagnosis, and no airgical lesion of the stomach or cap could be demonstrated surgically. A thickened appendix filled with feces was removed. Fig. 7—Case XXVI. The patient had been admitted to the hos¬ pital with a diagnosis of perforated gastric ulcer. His symptoms were acute epigastric pain and severe and protracted vomiting. The vomitus contained blood. Roentgeno- graphically no evidence of new growth, in¬ durated ulcer or adhesions of the stomach or duodenum was found. An acute angula- Fig. 7. Stomach Normal—Colonic Adhesions.