. The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine . the amount ofmeasured sputum in twenty-four hours de-creased from 250 to 30 The odor wasdecidedly less and the patients general healthimproved. Bismuth was still present in the lung whenfluoroscoped ten days after injection, al-though both shadows were diminishing indensity and the lung abscess was apparentlyclearing up. The patient suffered no discomforts fol-lowing two injections of bismuth into herlung. She ate and slept well and had but littlecough. She was bronchoscoped twice afterthe injection and we
. The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine . the amount ofmeasured sputum in twenty-four hours de-creased from 250 to 30 The odor wasdecidedly less and the patients general healthimproved. Bismuth was still present in the lung whenfluoroscoped ten days after injection, al-though both shadows were diminishing indensity and the lung abscess was apparentlyclearing up. The patient suffered no discomforts fol-lowing two injections of bismuth into herlung. She ate and slept well and had but littlecough. She was bronchoscoped twice afterthe injection and we were not able to recoverany of the bismuth by suction, e\en thoughit was still present in the lung. At a laterbronchoscopic examination there was verylittle pus recovered by suction and no puswas expelled from the bronchus when the pa-tient was instructed to cough. The patient is still under observation. Case III. A female, S. M., age twenty-fiveyears. On March 26, 1918, she had her ton-sils and adenoids removed. Ten days follow-ing the operation the patient began coughing. Fig. 10. Case iv. Bronchiectasis. Before Area of cavitation. B. Fixed diaphragm withthickened pleura and bands of adhesions. up small cjuantities of foul-smelhng sputum,thick and yellowish in character; the amountgradually increased and occasionally thesputum was streaked with blood. There waspain and soreness in the lower part of thechest. She was operated in May, 1919. Rib re- 56 Roentgenographic Studies of Bronchiectasis and Lung Abscess section was performed and the cavity Dakin-ized; no abscess was found. The followingSeptember the incision was reopened and thetube placed in the cavity; there was no drain-age ; very little improvement occurred. InNovember, 1919, a new incision was madelower down with resection of a rib; a tubewas left in the cavity, but no drainage oc-curred. In January, 1920, the incision wasreopened and extended backward. An abscess pleuritic thickening involving the upp
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