History Page: Leaders in MSK Radiology.

Military physician Etienne Henrard has played an important role in both civil and military radiology. He was adjunct at the radiological department, created in 1897, in the military hospital in Brussels. In 1900, he equipped one of the first private cabinets in Brussels.

The Rise of Contrast-enhanced Roentgenology: An Illustrated and Chronological Overview.

Contrast opacification of the vascular system has become the mainstay of radiological examinations. This brief illustrated and chronological historical overview commences with the vascular opacification on a corpse via direct puncture of the aorta at both the thoracic and the abdominal levels and ends with the analogous exams on computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) via peripheral venous puncture.

[Contributions of radiology to surgery. A history older than a century].

The discovery of X rays was immediately highly valued by all the surgeons. At its beginnings, radiology only allowed to objectivize the lesions of the bones and to localize the radio-opaque foreign bodies. WWI materialized this synergy and after the conflict every hospital had to have a radiological department.