[An improved technique for radiological examination of the small intestine (author's transl)]. / Comment radiographier l'intestin grêle en 1980.

An improved technique for radiological examination of the small intestine by barium meal follow through is described, the method being based on an increase in amount of the volume of the meal: three glasses of 300 ml of a diluted 2/3 solution of micropaque. Opacification of the ileocecal region was obtained in 85 p. cent of 500 cases examined, in less than one hour. Intravenous injections of metoclopramide or neostigmine were given in 25 p. cent of cases.

[Lacunar images and invagination in 25 patients with celiac disease (author's transl)]. / Images lacunaires et invaginations dans 25 cas de maladie coeliaque.

A retrospective analysis of the results of barium meal with follow-through examinations of the small intestine was conducted in 25 patients with sprue. One or more images of invagination were present in 4 cases, and in 15 patients there were one or more central or marginal lacunar images, several centimetres in diameter, round or ovular in shape, and with irregular margins. These images are probably due, in varying degrees, to disorders of intestinal motility in hypotonic loops with edematous walls. Knowledge of these findings may be useful for assisting diagnosis of the disease.