Patient doses for barium meal examination performed at three general hospitals in Serbia and Montenegro were measured using a kerma-area product (KAP) meter. The results were analysed in order to obtain dose-related parameters. Although the observed doses were within the range reported in other studies, intra-hospital and inter-hospital dose variations were significant. Mean KAP values for tota...

Six patients with antibodies to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and with persistent gastrointestinal symptoms of HIV infection but without cutaneous lesions of Kaposi's sarcoma underwent endoscopy. Four also underwent barium meal examination. In all six cases small lesions were seen in the stomach at endoscopy, and histological examination of biopsy specimens taken from the lesions confi...

Fifty one infants and older children with suspected gastro-oesophageal reflux entered a study comparing the diagnostic accuracy of a standard barium swallow examination with that of ultrasound scanning. All children were examined by both techniques. In 40 cases there was unequivocal agreement between the examinations. Of the remaining patients, four had definite reflux by ultrasonic criteria bu...

The incidence of hiatal hernia has been reported by many authors and varied from 2.3% to 50%. Boyd3) found an incidence of 2.3% in 1, 500 barium examinations. Krothe,13) quoted by Bockus, reported an 8% incidence. Hafter7) noted a frequency of 12.5% in a large 않ries of 2,402 barium meal examinations. 1n 1960, Stein23) reported 50% in 100 consecutive barium meal examinations. These wide variatio...

Barium meal studies have shown evidence of a recurrent ulcer or of stenosis in 12 out of 24 patients with recurrent dyspepsia after vagotomy and pyloroplasty. These 12 patients have been subsequently proved to have had recurrences and all but one are now cured by further surgery. Barium meals in 12 patients show no evidence of recurrence or stenosis, and follow-up clinical studies suggest that ...

The rate of emptying of the gastric remnant after partial gastrectomy has been evaluated in 67 males by means of a meal of beefsteak and barium, and serial, hourly X-rays. Sixteen of the patients had retention after 4 hr, and 8 of these had symptoms (ie, early satiety, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, pain, weight loss), possibly related to gastric retention. The results suggest that the use of stea...

Introduction: It’s a rare report about intestinal obstruction caused by barium retention after small bowel radiography of oral barium. An 83-year-old woman was admitted for bile duct cancer with metal stent and incomplete intestinal obstruction .The patient ever did upper gastrointestinal barium meal examination which showed the mucosa of descending part of duodenum was unclear and contrast med...