. The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine . ype ofIt is reccgnized that the theory of thegastrointestinal origin of this type of arthri-tis is not universally acceptecf. Neverthe-less, holding this theory, we have madethe gastrointestinal studies with it as abasis. colon characterized tyiDically by its abnor-mal length and abnormal mobility. Second,practically all the cases that have becomechronic show so-called surgical lesions inthe right colon, or in the ileum, or in , these lesions consist of adventitious • Read at tho Twonty-third .Annual Meeti


. The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine . ype ofIt is reccgnized that the theory of thegastrointestinal origin of this type of arthri-tis is not universally acceptecf. Neverthe-less, holding this theory, we have madethe gastrointestinal studies with it as abasis. colon characterized tyiDically by its abnor-mal length and abnormal mobility. Second,practically all the cases that have becomechronic show so-called surgical lesions inthe right colon, or in the ileum, or in , these lesions consist of adventitious • Read at tho Twonty-third .Annual Meeting of The .\mkrican Ray Soi ietv, Los .Anuilcs. Sept. ii-if>. of this paper and the others in the same symposium will appear in a later number of the 424 Studies of Patients with Clironic Deforming Artiiritis 425 bands similar to Jacksons membrane, in- showing a little higher in the colon are volving the colon, usually above the ileo- the chief factor. cecal valve, and in\olving occasionally the The presence of these bands and. Fig. 3. Case ^034. Twenty-lour hours Cecumdescending into pelvis with band making torsionin this position above ileocecal valve. Colon distalto band rotated, showing appendix on the right ofcecum. Fig. 4. Case 8034. iSame case as in Figure I-orty-eight hours Cecum raised out of pelvis. Tensionon band relaxed relieving rotation. Appendix innormal position on the left and normal outline ofcolon. Findings confirmed at operation. ileum, producing the so-called Lane kinkand other less typical fixations, or chronicappendicitis, or the results of an acuteinflammatory process in the appendixwith adhesions and fixation of the cecumand appendix to surrounding structures,notably the ileum and right colon itself(the appendix is frequently retrocecal), orpost-operative adhesions follow ing removalof the appendix. We belie\e the adventitious bands areusually congenital or are developmentalprocesses, the res


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