"Manoel de Abreu (1892-1962) was a Brazilian radiologist who developed chest photofluorography, which was introduced in 1936."
"Dr Ary Miranda, president of the First Brazilian Tuberculosis Congress, held on May 1939, proposed that the name abreugraphy be used to designate the method devised by Manoel de Abreu 1,3. In other countries, the new diagnostic method received various names, such as roentgenfluorography (Germany), radiophotography (France), photoradioscopy (Spain), photofluorography (Sweden), schermography (Italy), mass radiography, mass miniature radiography, and miniature chest radiography (England and the United States) 1,3,4."
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"Development of chest fluorography"
"Dr Ary Miranda, president of the First Brazilian Tuberculosis Congress, held on May 1939, proposed that the name abreugraphy be used to designate the method devised by Manoel de Abreu 1,3. In other countries, the new diagnostic method received various names, such as roentgenfluorography (Germany), radiophotography (France), photoradioscopy (Spain), photofluorography (Sweden), schermography (Italy), mass radiography, mass miniature radiography, and miniature chest radiography (England and the United States) 1,3,4."
"Dr Ary Miranda, president of the First Brazilian Tuberculosis Congress, held on May 1939, proposed that the name abreugraphy be used to designate the method devised by Manoel de Abreu 1,3. In other countries, the new diagnostic method received various names, such as roentgenfluorography (Germany), radiophotography (France), photoradioscopy (Spain), photofluorography (Sweden), schermography (Italy), mass radiography, mass miniature radiography, and miniature chest radiography (England and the United States) 1,3,4."