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SURGERY
Author(s) -
May James
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1980.tb135038.x
Subject(s) - citation , library science , medicine , computer science
THE 1979 Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to Professor Allan M. Cormack of Tufts University, Massachusetts, and to Dr G. N. Housenfield of the British company, EMI. The joint award was for their development of computerized tomography. It was fitting that this award should be made, and that it should be mentioned in a surgical review article, as so many advances in surgery are dependent on improved methods of investigation. The detail provided by computerized tomography is unique, but it should be borne in mind that there is a small, but significant, radiation exposure and that the cost to the community is great. Isikoff and Gutter have pointed out that ultrasound is less expensive and less invasive than computerized tomography, and will provide useful information in the upper abdomen, provided that the patient is not obese nor filled with intestinal gas.'