. The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine . More frecjuently, the processcontinues until death occurs from someintercurrent condition or until the clinicalcourse becomes so distressing that surgeryIs resorted to, usually under a mistakendiagnosis and frequently with faulty sur-gical procedure, such as appendectomy,cholecystectomy, gastroenterostomj, etc. Physical examination is apt to beentirely negative, but occasionally a tumormay be felt, hard, freely movable and, at Roentgen Ray Society. Los Angeles, Sept 12-16 1922. 369 370 Enteroliths times, ten
. The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine . More frecjuently, the processcontinues until death occurs from someintercurrent condition or until the clinicalcourse becomes so distressing that surgeryIs resorted to, usually under a mistakendiagnosis and frequently with faulty sur-gical procedure, such as appendectomy,cholecystectomy, gastroenterostomj, etc. Physical examination is apt to beentirely negative, but occasionally a tumormay be felt, hard, freely movable and, at Roentgen Ray Society. Los Angeles, Sept 12-16 1922. 369 370 Enteroliths times, tender. The commonest locationsare the cecum, sigmoid and rectum. The routine laboratory investigationsrender little or no assistance, and, as yet,x-ray studies have rarely been of aid in thepre-operati\e diagnosis. However, if thecondition be kept in mind, careful radio-logic studies should more frequently besuccessful. From the reported cases it is evidentthat some enteroliths are not of sufficientdensity to be recognized in the plainabdominal roentgenogram. It is also prob-.
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