RT Journal
A1 THOMS H
T1 A new method of roentgen pelvimetry
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD May 4
VO 92
IS 18
SP 1515
OP 1516
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02700440023011
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700440023011
AB For a number of years this clinic has been interested in applying roentgenometric methods to the problems of pelvic mensuration. From time to time communications have appeared describing our experience with methods which we have developed for taking both pelvic inlet and lateral pelvis roentgenograms.1It is my purpose in this paper to emphasize again the great usefulness of roentgen pelvimetry and to describe an improved method of superior strait pelvimetry which can be easily and rapidly carried out.Up until the time when we adopted the present technic we2 were using a somewhat similar method described latterly in 1927, which depended on two main factors: first, the position of the patient, it being necessary that the superior strait be made exactly parallel with the sensitive plate below, and, second, the interposition of a lead scale in the plane of the superior strait following the removal of the