Importance of X-ray in the diagnosis

Before November 8, 1895, the medical diagnosis was fulfilling for the interrogation the patient, for the palpation and for the auscultation. The magnitude of the discovery was such that within a few months of the advertisement, already radiographic examinations were realized in the world by medical ends, and one had invented and popularized the fluoroscopy.

Then, in the following decades, there was impressive the impulse with which this speciality developed. Already not only it was a question of being able to see the bones in traumatic pathology or osteoarticular, but the power see, with the evolution of the substances of contrast, other internal structures like the alimentary canal, the urinary system, the blood glasses, etc.

This notable event was deserving in 1901 of the first prize Nobel prize of Physics, and resulted in a change trascedental in the managing of our patients on having contributed the angular stone of a new medical speciality of dizzy development: the radiology, which was allowing to study the patient within, making increasingly the diagnosis of the diseases precise.