[The ultrasonic diagnosis of jaundice. 199 cases (author's transl)]. / Diagnostic ultrasonore des ictères. 199 malades.
Nouv Presse Med
; 7(41): 3729-32, 1978 Nov 25.
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| ID: mdl-733521
ABSTRACT
Thank to a thorough ultrasonographic analysis of biliary tree ("shotgun sign"), liver and pancreas, a positive diagnosis of obstruction was carried out in 92% of cases. The success rate in diagnosis of level of obstruction was also 92%. Aetiologic diagnosis was successful in 61% of cases only (almost 100% in jaundices of pancreatic origine). No false positive diagnosis of obstruction was made in non-obstructive jaundice. This enabled to carry out instrumental cholangiography (i.e. "skinny" needle percutaneous cholangiography, and ERC) only in case of clinical, biological and sonographic discrepancies, or in hilar obstructions.
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Colestase
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Ultrassonografia
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Diagnostic_studies
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Humans
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Fr
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Nouv Presse Med
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1978
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