. Journal of radiology . Case I.—Fig. I.—Note marked dis-tention and reticulation of the smallintestine. Obstruction due to adeno-carcinoma of the jejunum. Also notethe irregularity in the pyloro-duo-denal region, due to a band of ad-hesions, causing stenosis. jejunum, was made. Operation by May 31st, 1920. His notesof the operative findings arc as fol-lows: No fluid. A band of connectivetissue with fat extends from the lesser Watch The Journal—It Leads! THE JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY 46 to the greater curvature constrictingthe pylorus. When this was dividedthe patency of the pylorus wa


. Journal of radiology . Case I.—Fig. I.—Note marked dis-tention and reticulation of the smallintestine. Obstruction due to adeno-carcinoma of the jejunum. Also notethe irregularity in the pyloro-duo-denal region, due to a band of ad-hesions, causing stenosis. jejunum, was made. Operation by May 31st, 1920. His notesof the operative findings arc as fol-lows: No fluid. A band of connectivetissue with fat extends from the lesser Watch The Journal—It Leads! THE JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY 46 to the greater curvature constrictingthe pylorus. When this was dividedthe patency of the pylorus was re-stored. The gall bladder was dis-tended, walls thin, no stone Case I.—Fig. II.—Same as Fig. I.,several hours later. The distentionand reticulation of the small intes-tine persisted for over thirty hours. There were adhesions between theiall bladder and duodenum easily sep-arated. The duodenum was not dilatedbut instead of it being huge it was adistinct S, suggesting it had been di-lated, but there was no evidence ofulcer of duodenum or stomach. Thestomach was somewhat dilated, butapparently empty. The appendix waslong and free, the cecum normal. Onlifting up the omentum and transversecolon, loops of rather collapsed in-testines presented themselves. On in-troducing the hand, the operator feltand withdrew a huge loop of was of the diameter of an adultcolon, thick walled and the distentionextended up to the mesenteric was a definite ring length of this distended gut wasabout four feet. It is the gut which allows in the x-ray. There arc no ad-hesions. Xear the stricture is a pal-pable gland. Rc-ection was


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