ROENTGENOTHERAPY IN UTERINE HEMORRHAGE

Abstract

The treatment of uterine hemorrhage by means of the Roentgen rays, is no longer a novelty, but has become an established method in most of the leading clinics in Europe, and is being well established in America. The first cases were treated and placed on record ten years ago by Deutsch. Since then reports have been made by several hundred roentgenologists and gynecologists, and the number of cases now definitely recorded are considerably over a thousand. There has been sufficient time for all the doubts and fears to have materialized, but instead, all hopes have been realized, the technic has been fairly well established, and the indications and contra-indications reasonably well outlined, so that to-day the method stands as one of the most brilliant achievements of roentgenology. In 1904 Deutsch¹found that the rays relieved four cases of uterine hemorrhage connected with fibroids. This report seemed to have been