GANGRENE OF THE LARGE INTESTINE AND OVARIES AFTER TRANSLUMBAR AORTOGRAPHY

Abstract

Within one year of Wilhelm von Roentgen's epoch-making discovery of the x-ray, Haschek and Lindenthal¹announced the visualization of blood vessels in an amputated arm by means of a contrast medium. The latter proved to be toxic for clinical use, however, and it was not until Cameron²reported the radiopaque property of the iodide molecule that clinical vascular visualization became feasible. Brooks³began to employ this modality for studying peripheral vascular diseases, and shortly thereafter Moniz⁴introduced cerebral angiography. It remained, however, for Dos Santos and his collaborators⁵to first realize and apply the translumbar route of arteriography. The procedure was not generally adopted by American physicians until Nelson⁶and Doss⁷independently published their experiences with translumbar aortography. Today, aortography is used extensively as a valuable diagnostic adjunct for the investigation of pathological conditions of the kidneys, retroperitoneal structures, and major arteries. The