Abstract

INTRAVENOUS cholangiography with iodipamide sodium was introduced in clinical medicine in 1953 as a method for rapid high contrast visualization of the biliary ducts and gall bladder.1 An abundant literature is now available concerning the merits of this procedure in the study of a variety of chronic biliary-tract disorders. Only a few reports, however, have emphasized the possible value of utilizing intravenous cholangiography in the evaluation of the patient with an acute abdominal illness.2 3 4 During the past three years at Grady Memorial Hospital intravenous cholangiography has been performed as an emergency procedure in an unselected group of patients who were . . .

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