. Röntgen ray diagnosis and therapy . Fig. 65.—Enormous Aortic Aneurysm,Causing Atrophy of the Claviclesand the Sternum. (Compare Fig. 66.) CHEST 105 upper portion of the chest. It is highly probable thai the exertionin lifting caused an enormous increase in the circulatory pressure,. followed by an overextension, and probably a laceration of thetunica intima and media. Shortly after this he was admitted to a hospital, where he wastreated for torticollis, as he states, for five weeks. During thatperiod slight dysphagia and hoarseness had been present. He re- 106 THE KONTGEN RAYS covered again
. Röntgen ray diagnosis and therapy . Fig. 65.—Enormous Aortic Aneurysm,Causing Atrophy of the Claviclesand the Sternum. (Compare Fig. 66.) CHEST 105 upper portion of the chest. It is highly probable thai the exertionin lifting caused an enormous increase in the circulatory pressure,. followed by an overextension, and probably a laceration of thetunica intima and media. Shortly after this he was admitted to a hospital, where he wastreated for torticollis, as he states, for five weeks. During thatperiod slight dysphagia and hoarseness had been present. He re- 106 THE KONTGEN RAYS covered again so far as to regard himself well for an entire a severe attack of malaria induced him to seek hospitaltreatment again. At that time the tumour had not exceeded thesize of a large apple. The hoarseness was considerable having improved again he left the hospital, and for eighteenmonths after had been under medical treatment he began to suffer from slight dizziness, with constriction ofthe throat and chest. Slight dysphagia and hoarseness recurred. On October 31, 1898, when the patient entered St. MarksHospital, the author saw him for the first time. The tu-mour had reached an enormous size, then extending over thesternum, the sternal portio
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