Word: uroselectan
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...recesses of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. He had developed a method of making the kidneys visible to x-ray photography. The method is so original, reliable and useful that urologists dignify it with the name Swick Method. The shadow material is called lopax in the U. S., Uroselectan in Germany. Its development was the result of chance, curiosity and an inference...
...vision is suddenly affected by a drug there probably is a methyl radical (CH3) involved. Professor Binz's compound had such a methyl radical. Not worried, he offered to synthesize a more tolerable iodine preparation, soon furnished 5-iodo-2-pyridon-N-acetate of sodium, which he calls Uroselectan and U. S. urologists lopax. Injected in the veins it rapidly collects in the kidneys and shows by means of x-rays the shape of those organs and any stones or malformations there or in the ureters (leading from the kidneys to the bladder...
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