The role of ultrasound in the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of the amebic hepatic abscess
- Author:
Chien Duc Du
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
amebic hepatic abscess
- MeSH:
Ultrasonography;
Liver Abscess, Amebic;
therapeutics
- From:Journal of Vietnamese Medicine
1999;233(2):80-81
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
157 patients with the amebic hepatic abscess diagnosed and treated in Viet Duc hospital during 1995 - 1998. The number and position of abscess focuses were identified by ultrasound. The sound intensity in the abscess focus was reduced. The abscess focus located in the right liver (80.90%), right side of the liver (50%), posterior lobe (50%) anterior lobe (30.90%), and medial lobe (4.49%). After diagnosis, 55 cases (50.32%) and 23 cases received operations (14.65%).
