. The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine . Fig. 3. Three barium capsules lodged above trans-parent obstruction which is partially outlined by acoating of barium left from the barium suspension. he has had more or less difficulty inswallowing. Seventeen days before hewas brought to us he told his mother thathe had swallowed an orange seed. Sincethat time he had been unable to retainany food, not even water, and vomitedalmost immediately after eating. He hadlost about 12 lbs. X-ray examination byDr. S. Brown showed that opposite the9th rib posteriorly there wa
. The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine . Fig. 3. Three barium capsules lodged above trans-parent obstruction which is partially outlined by acoating of barium left from the barium suspension. he has had more or less difficulty inswallowing. Seventeen days before hewas brought to us he told his mother thathe had swallowed an orange seed. Sincethat time he had been unable to retainany food, not even water, and vomitedalmost immediately after eating. He hadlost about 12 lbs. X-ray examination byDr. S. Brown showed that opposite the9th rib posteriorly there was a markedstenosis of the esophagus with a sausage-like dilatation above, and with the barium trickling through in a very thin streambelow this point. Upon close scrutiny itappeared to me that there was a fillingdefect in the esophagus at the point ofconstriction, which I ventured to suggestmight be due to the presence of the orangeseed. The diagnosis then was Strictureof the esophagus, obstructed by a foreign. Fig. 4. Lye stricture of the esophagus obstructed bya non-opaque foreign body, with dilatation abovepoint of constriction. body, with dilatation above the point ofconstriction. The foreign body was easilylocated with the esophagoscope and provedto be an orange seed. X-ray examinationmade a few days after the foreign bodyhad been removed, showed, much to oursurprise, that the esophageal pouch abovethe stricture had disappeared, so that bythe .\-ray examination we were able tostate that the patient had had an acutedilatation of the esophagus, (comparableto an acute dilatation of the heart) 550 X-Ray Diagnosis of Unusual Lar\ ngotracheal Esophageal Conditions whicli had disappeared after the obstruc-tion was removed. Cases II and IV would indicate thatthe presence of a filHng defect in a stenosedesophagus may be due to the presence of aforeign body. UNEXPECTED X-RAY FINDINGS Case V. The .x-ray examination inthis case proved to be of great valueboth to the patient and the ph
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