The Value of the Opaque Enema and its Modifications

Abstract

The object of this paper is not to attempt a lecture, but to try to present some interesting details on disease of the large intestine as it is seen by the radiologist, to review conditions as they might be found at any routine opaque enema examination and so once again confirm the invaluable contribution the opaque enema can make to correct diagnosis if properly carried out. A few fallacies and mistakes will be introduced, some of my own making and a few of others, and where possible, remedies will be suggested. Brief references will be made to special techniques and, lastly, review some new devices designed to assist in this branch of radiology. Much of the material has been drawn from my department at St. Mark's Hospital for Diseases of the Bowel, London, where perhaps a unique opportunity exists for reviewing a wide selection of bowel cases with every assistance available to follow up these in the clinics and examine the operation specimens in the Pathological Department of this Hospital. From time to...