RT Journal
A1 LANGE S
T1 A method of diagnosticating floating kidney by the x-ray
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD July 31
VO LIII
IS 5
SP 382
OP 382
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.92550050041003c
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.92550050041003c
AB The great advance in x-ray technic in the last few years has not only put the diagnosis of renal calculi on an accurate basis, but has rendered visible the kidney itself. Not many years ago it was considered remarkable to obtain an outline of the kidney on the skiagram. Now it is a common observation. Indeed, where the technic has been perfected it is a routine matter to obtain the kidney shadow, the technical prerequisites being a soft tube and a quick exposure while the patient suspends respiration. In this way I have been able repeatedly to diagnosticate nephroptosis and have seen the diagnosis verified by palpation or operation.It occurred to me that the x-ray diagnosis of floating kidney could be made uncontrovertible by showing the kidney outline in different places on two skiagrams taken at different times or in