STOMACH RELIEF ROENTGENOGRAM

Abstract

1. From normal subjects and patients with strophic gastritis, relatively good relief roentgenogtam can be obtained without any pretreatment. In contrast with this, pretreatment with parasympathetic blocking agent, digestive enzyme, and neutralizer is necessary in order to obtain good stomach relief and fine relief from patients of superficial gastritis, hypertrophic gastritis, peptic ulcer and stomach cancer.2. As for techniques of fine relief roentgenography of the stomach, unsatisfactory picture is generally obtained from untreated cases either by the Berg's or by the doublecontrast technique when small amounts of contrast medium (10-20cc) are used. But when medium amounts are used, the double contrast and the compression technique are adequate for untreated cases, and the double contrast technique is adequate for treated cases.3. As for fine relief roentgenography, it is successful without pretreatment, at 39.6% with normal subjects, at 27.3% with patients or atrophic gastritis, but only at about 10% with patients of superficial gastritis, hypertrophic gastritis, peptic ulcer and stomach cancer. And in the latter cases, the range of fine relief is confined to a part of the antrum. With treated cases, however, it is successful at high frequencies of 45.5-71.4% with any of the above cases, and range of roentgenography is extended to the corpus from the antrum.4) Fine relief will make significant contribution to discovery of early stage gastric lesions of stomach cancer and small ulcer.