TY  - JOUR
T1  - THe treatment of thyrotoxicosis by means of roentgen ray
AU  - HOLMES GW, MERRILL AS
Y1  - 1919/11/29
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1919.02610480043014
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1693
EP  - 1696
VL  - 73
IS  - 22
N2  - The treatment of exophthalmic goiter and other forms of thyrotoxicosis by the roentgen ray was recommended as early as 1905, and a considerable amount of literature on the subject has since accumulated. In 1916, Pfahler was able to collect seventy-six papers on the treatment of exopthalmic goiter by the roentgen ray. Nevertheless, outside of a few clinics, no general attention has been given to this subject. During the past five years we have treated, in the roentgen-ray department of the Massachusetts General Hospital, 262 patients for thyrotoxicosis. The results of this work have been sufficiently encouraging, we think, to warrant a more general use of this agency in the treatment of thyrotoxicosis.Experimental and investigative work has shown that it is possible to destroy the glandular structures by subjecting them for a sufficient length of time to the roentgen ray or to radium. It is also generally known that the
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1919.02610480043014
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610480043014
ER  -