Abstract
Pyelographic procedures take time and subject the patient to many minutes of discomfort, a factor in which is that both retrograde pyelograms and intravenous urograms are taken with the patient on a hard, cold cystoscopic table. From the patient's point of view it is highly desirable to render these procedures as comfortable as possible. With this in mind, I requested the DuPont Company to make a cover that fits over the Bucky diaphragm of a standard Young cystoscopic table (see figure). The cover consists of a coarse-pore cellulose sponge measuring 3/4 in. by 19 in. by 26 in. (1.91 cm. by 48.26 cm. by 66.04 cm.). Pyelograms of 100 consecutive urologic patients were made with and without the sponge table cover. It was impossible for our radiologist or for me to distinguish between the two types of picture. The sharpness of the films was in no instance impaired or interfered
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