RT Journal
A1 CASE JT
T1 EValuation of cholecystography
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD January 26
VO 92
IS 4
SP 291
OP 297
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02700300015004
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700300015004
AB In conversing with a large number of physicians from various parts of the country, one is impressed with the fact that the real purpose and value of Graham's gallbladder test are still unappreciated, even by many who attempt to employ it. The idea seems to have gained strong foothold that the method is simply a functional test in which tetraiodophenolphthalein is orally administered with the hope that some of the dye will enter the gallbladder and thus cause it to show on the roentgenogram. If the gallbladder is thus visualized, well and good; if it is not visualized, it is pathologic. Certain variations of shadow density are recognized, but little importance can be attached to them when the test has been given by the oral method, for under such circumstances it is impossible to determine how much of the dye has been absorbed. Of course, if nonopaque gallstones are recognized,