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Neoplasias da Mama/história , Meios de Contraste/história , Excisão de Linfonodo/história , Linfedema/história , Linfografia/história , Biópsia de Linfonodo Sentinela/história , Neoplasias da Mama/patologia , Neoplasias da Mama/cirurgia , Feminino , História do Século XX , História do Século XXI , Humanos , Hungria , Excisão de Linfonodo/métodos , Linfonodos/patologia , Linfonodos/cirurgia , Linfedema/etiologia , Linfedema/prevenção & controle , Linfografia/métodos , Biópsia de Linfonodo Sentinela/tendênciasRESUMO
Lymphadenography is a method for direct radiologic visualization of lymph nodes following injection of fat soluble contrast medium. Sven Bruun and Arnfinn Engeset at Rogaland Hospital developed this method in 1952 and published preliminary results in 1956. They have been somewhat overshadowed by the English surgeon John B. Kinmonth who published his method on lymphangiography in 1954. Kinmonth succeeded in visualizing the peripheral lymph vessels by direct injection of water soluble contrast medium. By this technique it was not feasible to depict lymph nodes above the knee because of diffusion of medium to surrounding tissues. Lymphography is a technique that visualizes both lymph vessels and lymph nodes. This method is based on a combination of the two above-mentioned methods with injection of fat soluble contrast medium into peripheral lymph vessels. Lymphography was a very important examination which was used all over the world in the 1960s and 1970s. It has now been replaced by other examinations.
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Linfografia/história , História do Século XX , Humanos , NoruegaRESUMO
W. C. Röntgen first published the discovery of x-rays on December 28th, 1895. The extraordinary significance for diagnostics was immediately recognized all over the world. Already as early as January 16th, 1896, pictures produced in Vienna were reported in the "Wiener klinische Wochenschrift". The urological x-ray diagnostics attempted at first the visualization of kidney- and bladderstones. First successful results were demonstrated already in the summer of 1896 by D'Arsonval in Paris, by McIntyre in Glasgow and by A. v. Frisch in Vienna in 1897. The endeavors to demonstrate the collecting system by filling with a contrast medium began in 1905, the intravenous pyelography in 1923. However, it took a long time for finding contrast media of acceptable toxic levels. The arteriography as envisaged in the beginning could be realized in 1929 but first gained its practical application during the middle of this century. Air as contrast medium--as for instance in the pneumoperitoneum--as well as lymphography lost their usefulness with the emergence of the computertomography since 1973.