Kazan medical journalKazan medical journal0368-48142587-9359Eco-Vector9056510.17816/kazmj90565Research ArticleRoentgenodiagnosis of radiation changes of the small intestineAbdulkhakovaD. A.<p>Department of Radiation Diagnostics and Therapy</p>info@eco-vector.comKazan Institute for Advanced Training of Doctors150919947553773791612202116122021Copyright © 1994, Eco-Vector1994<p>Clinico-roentgenologic changes of the small intestine in 87 women after radiotherapy performed in case of cervical carcinoma of IIII stages are studied. The changes of the small intestine in early and late terms after radiotherapy in the form of dyskinesia, pathologic segmentation, flocculation, more rarely fragmentation of barium suspension column, in some cases, mucous membrane folds edema are revealed. The ileum located in radiation zone is principally damaged. The changes are more pronounced in patients with fixation of intestinal loops by postoperative commissures and suffering from enteritis before radiotherapy. The inadequacy of complaints of patients to the manifestation extent of the small intestine changes revealed by roentgenodiagnosis is characteristic.</p>Kazan Medical archiveКазанский медицинский архив