TY  - JOUR
T1  - Étude clinique et radiologique des cavernes tuberculeuses: Spélélogie pulmonaire.
Y1  - 1929/08/17
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1929.02710070065031
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 567
EP  - 568
VL  - 93
IS  - 7
N2  - This is a clear-cut treatise on cavities of the lungs, their classification, their origin, their treatment and their healing, together with many interesting observations by the author. The term "spéléologie" belongs to a branch of geology and refers to the study of fissures, caverns and gulfs that occur in the interior of the earth. The author designs to apply the term to caverns in the lungs. It is pointed out in the paper that it has been difficult to reconcile clinical observation with postmortem appearances, but, since the advent of the x-rays, the records on the film, being permanent and susceptible of interpretation by competent observers, serve to clarify the subject. Jaquerod divides cavities into three classes or degrees: The cavity of the first class, he says, is characterized radiologically by an annular shadow, relatively indistinct, of which the interior is not completely clear, and clinically by the absence of
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1929.02710070065031
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02710070065031
ER  -