Relaxin and the radiolucent fissure in the symphysis pubis during pregnancy: the gas phenomenon.

A vertical radiolucent fissure is frequently seen in the symphysis pubis on x-ray pelvimetry studies. This phenomenon is illustrated and discussed. It appears to be a parameter of targeted relaxin softening and stretching of the symphysis.

Pulmonary blebs and bullae in alcoholics: a possible alcoholic-specific lung phenomenon.

Chest x-ray films of 200 unselected severely alcoholic patients were studied in a search for a possible alcohol-lung syndrome. Fourteen instances of pulmonary blebs and bullae were encountered, an incidence substantially higher than usual. Functional airway obstruction has been previously identified in the lungs of alcoholics, and the present findings might be a radiologic manifestation of the same process.

Mondor's disease in the breast.

Mondor's disease is thrombophlebitis of a vein on the anterolateral thoracoabdominal wall. When it involves the breast it may cause undue apprehension. The characteristic appearance is described and illustrated.

Inoperable gastric lymphosarcoma mistaken for carcinoma: response to radiation with twenty-year survival to date.

With suitable treatment, the potential for long survival with gastric lymphoma is well-documented. However, since these tumors constitute only about 1-3% of gastric malignancies, they may occur only rarely in a particular radiologist's experience. The present report of a remarkable therapeutic response is a reminder that the possibility of lymphosarcoma should be included in the differential diagnosis of every gastric neoplasm.