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The systematic use during cholecystography of the incidences in side-view associated with the incidences in front-view, in decubitus, appears to us to mark an appreciable progress in the study of vesicular physiology and pathology.
By giving the maximum amount of detail of the morphology of the biliary tract, this method enables a balanced judgment to be made of the volume of the gall-bladder before and after Boyden’s test, and thus permits exact figures of the volume of the vesicular content to be obtained.
Above all, it allows a separate study to be made of two phenomena very often confused, thefunction of evacuation, measured by the volumetric “coefficient of evacuation≓, and thefunction of vesicular contraction, measured by the “angle of erection≓ in side-view. A separate study of the two makes it possible to judge the variations which may be parallel or divergent.
With the help of these two very precise facts, it is then possible to perfect the radiological diagnosis of vesicular dyskineses and to distinguish normal gallbladders, infundibulo-cystic hypertensions, cholecystatony, total vesicular stases, hypercontractile gall-bladders.
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Albot, G., Toulet, J., Bonnet, G.F. et al. Front and side-view cholecystography, with a study of the angle of vesicular erection, of the volume of the gall-bladder and of the volumetric coefficient of evacuation. Amer. Jour. Dig. Dis. 20, 293–301 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02895537
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