title: The accelerated diagnosis of jaundice with ultrasonography and narrow-needle cholangiography.
abstract: The accuracy of ultrasonography in the diagnosis of jaundice in 70 patients has been compared with that of transhepatic cholangiography and the results of surgery and liver biopsy. A simplified system of grouping the ultrasonic data is presented. The results indicate that ultrasonography is capable of differentiating obstructive from non-obstructive jaundice in 94% of cases and of defining the correct anatomical level in 85% of cases. The accuracy of narrow-needle cholangiography was 100% for obstructive jaundice and 66% normal duct entry rate for non-obstructive jaundice.
mesh_terms: D001652:Bile Ducts / Q000473:pathology; D001660:Biliary Tract Diseases / Q000145:classification; D002758:Cholangiography; D002779:Cholestasis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006500:Hepatic Duct, Common / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007565:Jaundice / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014465:Ultrasonics