. Medical communications of the Massachusetts Medical Society. THE VALUE OF THE ROENTGEN METHODIN THE STUDY OF CHRONIC APPENDI-CITIS AND INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS,BOTH CONGENITAL AND ACQUIRED,ABOUT THE CECUM AND TERMINALILEUM. We are presenting here a series of cases which illustratejust how we can make Roentgen diagnoses of surgical con-ditions in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen andneighboring organs. In practically all of these cases theclinical symptoms were very much alike. First and foremostwas constipation, usually extending over a period of years;then there were more or less vague
. Medical communications of the Massachusetts Medical Society. THE VALUE OF THE ROENTGEN METHODIN THE STUDY OF CHRONIC APPENDI-CITIS AND INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS,BOTH CONGENITAL AND ACQUIRED,ABOUT THE CECUM AND TERMINALILEUM. We are presenting here a series of cases which illustratejust how we can make Roentgen diagnoses of surgical con-ditions in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen andneighboring organs. In practically all of these cases theclinical symptoms were very much alike. First and foremostwas constipation, usually extending over a period of years;then there were more or less vaguely-localized abdominalpains, with frequent distention and flatulence. In somecases the symptoms pointed more towards the stomach —pain, pressure or distress after eating, heartburn, belching,nausea, frequent headaches. In one case there were vom-iting attacks of increasing frequency, until practically nothingcould be held on the stomach. Many of these cases had beentreated medically for varying lengths of time, both by drugsand by dietetic regulation direc
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