Efficacy of diagnostic ultrasound in the periodical health examination
- Author:
Hai Thanh Phan
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
ultrasound
- MeSH:
ultrasonography;
Diagnostic Equipment;
diagnosis;
Periodicals
- From:Journal of Vietnamese Medicine
1999;232(1):142-145
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
Nowadays, abdominal ultrasound (US) was used widely in the annually health checkup. It can detect some diseases in the presymptom period as effectively as looking for cancer early, e.g. the breast cancer US screening on over 30 year- old Asian women was very reliable. From January 1998 to November 1998, we performed the abdomen and breast US examination for 21,558 workers in 97 factories in the annually health checkup programs (included 17,547 cases of abdominal US and 4,111 cases of breast US). It concluded that the abdomen and breast ultrasonic screening examinations would be useful in the patients without symptoms
