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A Ureteral Compression Technic

J. BYRON BEARE, M.D.; CARL A. WATTENBERG, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1950;61(3):568-582.

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IT IS NOT the purpose of this paper to exploit the advantages and possibilities of each method of urography but rather to evaluate honestly the indications and contraindications for each. Braasch¹ summarized the matter well when he stated: "Although excretory and retrograde urography have individual advantages, they frequently are of complementary value and may be combined to good effect." We are in complete accord with this statement.

To Binz² goes the credit for having synthesized the iodine compound, which he called selectan neutral, that heralded the advent of excretory urography. Von Lichtenberg³ was one of the first to use this substance clinically and to realize its possibilities. In his opinion, the compound called uroselectan (sodium iodomethamate), which also was synthesized by Binz and was similar to selectan neutral except that it contained less iodine and was more soluble, was even more adaptable for use in intravenous urography . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
ST. LOUIS

From the Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Read at the Ninety-Eighth Annual Session of the American Medical Association, Atlantic City, June 9, 1949.

Dr. Oscar Zink and Dr. H. W. Frerking, of the Department of Radiology, St. Luke's Hospital, gave us valuable technical assistance.

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