The Chest: A Handbook of Roentgen Diagnosis

This treatise is a compact, well organized review of the roentgen diagnosis of diseases of the chest. The format is arranged for easy reading, and the descriptions are clear and concise without excess verbiage. It is introduced by a pertinent section which orients the reader as to the importance and value of roentgenologic studies of the chest and indicates the attendant difficulties of the interpretation. A description of the methods of examination used in roentgenography and roentgenoscopy is included in this handbook together with a review of the special devices (body section roentgenography, photofluorography) and methods (bronchography) utilized in roentgen ray examination of the chest. There is included in this book not only diseases of the lung but of the mediastinum, the pleura and the chest wall. A particularly useful section is that devoted to the normal roentgen findings of the chest and their variations. The reproductions of the roentgenograms