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%).
Ultrasonography ; Liver Abscess, Amebic ; therapeutics