. Diseases of the stomach : including dietetic and medicinal treatment . the conicalarea. In some instances the stomach is found to be empty in six hours,but has lost its normal hook shape, and has assumed a horn shape,being short and placed diagonally. It is impossible, however, by theradiographic plate alone to determine whether this horizontal, con-tracted stomach is due to hypertonicity or to infiltration of its wallby cicatricial tissue or by scirrhus. In cases of inoperable diffuse carcinoma of the entire stomach, in-cluding the cardia, we are apt to find the stomach empty in six hours,t
. Diseases of the stomach : including dietetic and medicinal treatment . the conicalarea. In some instances the stomach is found to be empty in six hours,but has lost its normal hook shape, and has assumed a horn shape,being short and placed diagonally. It is impossible, however, by theradiographic plate alone to determine whether this horizontal, con-tracted stomach is due to hypertonicity or to infiltration of its wallby cicatricial tissue or by scirrhus. In cases of inoperable diffuse carcinoma of the entire stomach, in-cluding the cardia, we are apt to find the stomach empty in six hours,the head of the bismuth column at or beyond the splenic flexure, abismuth deposit in the lower esophagus after six hours. The secondbismuth meal shows us a greatly shortened distorted organ lyingobliquely in the abdomen, and the bismuth immediately after ingestionbeginning to flow freely out of the stomach, indicating insufficiencyat the pylorus. The radiographic evidence of pyloric stenosis will bedescribed under the heading of pxioric stenosis. PLATE IV Fig. 1 Fig. 2.
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