Iodized Oil and Pneumoperitoneum in Gynecology1

LAST year we demonstrated before the Radiological Society of North America the results of our studies in the practical utilization of pneumoperitoneum and its application to gynecology. Forestier at that time exhibited films illustrative of the use of an iodized oil in the diagnosis of uterine and tubal disorders. It occurred to us that, while the latter was a very valuable addition to our armamentarium, the combination of the two methods, pneumoperitoneum and transuterine iodized oil instillation, would undoubtedly be of more value than either alone. In the past year, we therefore made a number of observations utilizing this combined method. We desire now to demonstrate the results thus obtained and shall attempt to evaluate the combined method in terms of the other two separately. None of these methods has been used routinely by us in the diagnosis of our gynecologic material, but only in those cases in which the diagnosis was incomplete or unsatisfactory by other clinical means. The technic employed in...