. The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine . sions in the symptoms and the physicalsigns. In such a remission, which is favoredby residence in the countn,, both symp-toms and physical signs may be absentor they may be so slight that their impor-tance and significance are not such circumstances the roentgenexamination will always show evidence ofdisease. I will not speak of the cases inwhich the roentgen plate discloses one ormore cavities that have eluded physicalexamination, which is not charged to the. Ill S. is visible on the roentgen
. The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine . sions in the symptoms and the physicalsigns. In such a remission, which is favoredby residence in the countn,, both symp-toms and physical signs may be absentor they may be so slight that their impor-tance and significance are not such circumstances the roentgenexamination will always show evidence ofdisease. I will not speak of the cases inwhich the roentgen plate discloses one ormore cavities that have eluded physicalexamination, which is not charged to the. Ill S. is visible on the roentgen plate; on theoperating table or on autopsy additionalmacroscopic cavities are usually found andalso microscopic dilatations of the cases can only be cured surgicallyby eradicating the whole diseased lobe,by a lobectomy, whereas the cases of soli-tary abscess without infiltration may beeffectively treated by incision and will thus be seen that the roentgenray affords a convenient and exact methodof following the evolution of suppurativelung conditions. I am tempted to say thatit is the only reliable method, for thefollowing reasons. To assert that a case iscured because the clinical symptoms haveabated or subsided is unsafe. A study ofthe history of these cases shows nothingmore clearly than the frequency of remis- lack of skill of the examiner. More com-monly there is found only a small areaof pneumonic infiltration which has per-sisted after an apparent cure. Ill-defined,and inaccessible to ordinary methods ofexaminatio
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