. The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine . patients head and thus changingthe adjustment. A TABLE DESIGNED FOR THE SIMPLIFICATION OFPNEUMOPERITONEUM TECHNIQUE By L. R. SANTE, Assistant Professor of Radiology, St. Loviis University Medical School;Radiologist to St. Louis City Hospitals ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI TTARLY in our experience with pneumo-■^^ peritoneum, we were confronted withthe problem of securing a technique which,while rapid, would still be sufficiently thor-ough so as not to miss any important patho-logical lesions. One of the greatest draw-bac
. The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine . patients head and thus changingthe adjustment. A TABLE DESIGNED FOR THE SIMPLIFICATION OFPNEUMOPERITONEUM TECHNIQUE By L. R. SANTE, Assistant Professor of Radiology, St. Loviis University Medical School;Radiologist to St. Louis City Hospitals ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI TTARLY in our experience with pneumo-■^^ peritoneum, we were confronted withthe problem of securing a technique which,while rapid, would still be sufficiently thor-ough so as not to miss any important patho-logical lesions. One of the greatest draw-backs to the more universal use of pneumo-peritoneum is the great number of positionsin which the patient must be placed in order tients in the dorsal, standing, both lateral,knee chest and Trendelenburg in 1919, Drs. Stewart and Stein intheir initial article* outlined in great detailfive positions with which they felt a thor-ough examination of all intra-abdominal or-gans could be made. These positions arebriefly: I. Prone: the tube above, plate beneath ab-. FiG. I. This table, mounted upon two central wheels,may ])e tilted readily, the head being raised orlowered by pressure on either end. Two kidneyelevators, operating independently, extend throughthe table top and permit elevation of the patientto anv desired level. to secure a view of all the intra-abdominalorgans from all aspects. In the earlier German articles many differ-ent positions have been described. Rauten-berg^ in 1914 described the findings in thestanding and left lateral positions, and in alater communication of the same year- de-scribed the appearance in the dorsal andTrendelenburg positions. Goetze ^ in his paper on pneumoperito-neum gives a summary of the positions pre-viously utilized and goes into considerabledetail as to the positions which he considersof greatest importance. He examines pa-
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