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DIAGNOSIS BY MEANS OF THE ROENTGEN RAY

ETHEL C. DUNHAM, M.D.; ARNOLD M. SMYTHE, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1926;31(6):815-831.

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Tuberculosis of the mesenteric lymph nodes is found in children with great frequency, but the presence of the disease in these structures has been brought to light at necropsy or at operation rather than by examination during life. The pathologist often finds the lymph nodes of the abdomen the seat of caseous or calcifying tuberculosis, when the possibility had never entered the mind of the clinician, and the surgeon often encounters tuberculous nodes in the abdomen when fully expecting to meet an acute condition of a nontuberculous nature. In discussing abdominal tuberculosis in children, Still¹ points out that the condition is not common from the clinician's standpoint, "but from the more reliable estimate of the pathologist, abdominal tuberculosis would seem to be one of the commonest of all tuberculous lesions in children." "My own statistics," he writes, "show that 88.3 per cent of tuberculous children have tuberculous lesions in . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW HAVEN, CONN.

From the Pediatric Department, Yale University School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Received for publication, Feb. 11, 1926.

This work was made possible by a grant from the William Wirt Winchester Fund, and represents a part of a cooperative study on tuberculosis of the Research Committee of the National Tuberculosis Association.

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