Word: arteriograms
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Arteriograms (Xray still photos of arteries that have been flooded with radiopaque dye) help, but they are not always reliable: the "flooding" technique often fails to fill the arteries with enough dye, and still pictures do not clearly separate small vessels that are superimposed on each other. One of the major breakthroughs at last week's AHA meeting came when the Cleveland Clinic's Drs. Earl Shirey and F. Mason Sones Jr. demonstrated a diagnostic technique that seems likely to improve on the arteriogram-a method of coordinating the ray, a specially designed catheter and a movie camera...
...protect the aneurysm patient from further attacks of increasing severity, Tufts University's Dr. Bertram Selverstone has devised a daring and ingenious technique. First, Dr. Selverstone opens the way to the Circle of Willis by taking out a big flap of bone from the skull. (An arteriogram-an X ray of the brain's blood vessels involving the injection of radio-opaque dye into the patient-will have already spotted the site of the aneurysm.) Then, using an artist's airbrush, Selverstone sprays the aneurysm with a mixture of plastics that combine to form a coating similar...
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