ROUND SIGHT ROTATOGRAPHY APPLIED TO MOULDING OF THE KIDNEY
1955 Volume 46 Issue 8 Pages 587-591
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1955 Volume 46 Issue 8 Pages 587-591
The author performed the moulding of the kidney by means of application of the Round. Sight Rotatography, one type of Rotatography.
This method was devised by Palmieri, G. G., who had moulded on the heart. The author applied to mould conformed to nephrogram got by pneumoretroperitoneum.
1) As the sphere of rotation is from 0° to 180°, he fixed to make the patient at the sideposition laying examined side downward, so that the nephrogram of the examined side would be clearer than that of the opposite side.
2) The patient was laid on the table to make setting the length-axis which passes through the upper and lower pole of the kidney run paral to the axis of rotation. He kept the patient's respiration peaceful, and made the patient stop to breathe when exposuring.
3) He exposured every 10°, and got nineteen films. He traced nephrogram of the films on the card-board, and decided to make the foot of central x-ray on the middle of the standard-line being drawn on the nephrogram. Thus the distortion of the moulded kidney caused by breathing and unexpected slight moving of the body is out of the question.
4) He moulded the left kidneies in two cases; one cases is that of 36 year old healthy wife and the other 34 year old nephrophthisic wife. The forms of the moulded kidneies were severely effected with the neighbouring organs and muscles etc. He found the compressions effected by the above organs and muscles and the rising caused by arteria and vena renalis by the side of the renal hilus.
In the second case, he compared the form of the moulded kidney with that of the extirpatedd kidney. And he observed that a large cavity of the anterior surface on the extirpated kidney was flatly because of the ventricular compression on the moulded kidney, and that a small cavity of the posterior surface showed the rising in spite of being muscular compression.
5) He compared with and discussed the some radiographies each other which were possiblee to see the kidney as solid bodies in the conventional authorities.
