The acute abdomen. II. Radiological help in the diagnosis of abdominal emergencies.

Abstract

In my student days, when the immediate future always seemed to be dominated by an examination of some kind, I suffered from a recurrent dream—I dare say some of you may well have experienced the same sort of thing—that, admitted to the presence of my examiners, I found that I was to be questioned not, as I had supposed, about medicine or surgery, but about differential calculus or Latin verses or at any rate some subject upon which my knowledge was so meagre that I was certain to cut a very inadequate and undignified figure. When I accepted your kind invitation to help open a discussion upon a radiological subject, it had not struck me how near I might be to making this dream come true. Yet, since we all know that very occasionally a lesion found at operation differs slightly from that forecast in the X-ray department and that some surgeons have been known in such circumstances to pursue their radiological colleagues into their lair in order to put them right, entirely in a helpful spirit of course, I do ...