. The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine . hegeneral condition as well as the pulmonarysymptoms became worse and the patientdeveloped also a persistent enteritis andcolitis, causing a very marked loss ofweight and weakness. Tubercle bacilliwere found in the stools. Roentgen ray examination of the gastro-intestinal tract showed a very rapid empty-ing of the small intestines as well as ofthe colon, the barium-zoolak meal beingin the descending and sigmoid colon threehours after the ingestion. Fluoroscopic and radiographic examina-tion of the colon by means of
. The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine . hegeneral condition as well as the pulmonarysymptoms became worse and the patientdeveloped also a persistent enteritis andcolitis, causing a very marked loss ofweight and weakness. Tubercle bacilliwere found in the stools. Roentgen ray examination of the gastro-intestinal tract showed a very rapid empty-ing of the small intestines as well as ofthe colon, the barium-zoolak meal beingin the descending and sigmoid colon threehours after the ingestion. Fluoroscopic and radiographic examina-tion of the colon by means of a barium-enema showed a definite falling-defect atthe lower pole of the cecum and a generalirregularity of the outline of the cecum andthe ascending colon; there was markedtenderness in the right iliac fossa. Operative findings were as follows:Tuberculosis of the transverse and ascend-ing colons, cecum and ilium, with a largemass involving the junction of the distal ilium and the cecum; many small tubercleswere seen on the large report, Operation.—Resection of the last 12inches of the ilium, cecum, the ascendingand part of the transverse colons. REPORT ON A METHOD OF FLUOROSCOPIC EXAMINA-TION WITH THE ARMY BEDSIDE UNIT BY F. F. BORZELLHeadquarters Base Hospital 38, A. E. F. GRAND BLOTTEREAU, NANTES, FRANCE I HERE has been, perhaps, no one phase-■■ of war radiologywhich has attained sucha field of usefulness as has bedside radi-olog^% with the possible exception of local-ization of foreign bodies. Even the refine-ment and simplification of localization andremoval of foreign bodies as developed by During the last three months, whichrepresents the actual time this hospitalhas been doing active service, we haveexamined a few more than 150 cases at thebedside. The examinations have been radio-graphic with and without the intensifying
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