title: [Ultrasonic diagnosis of cardiac and abdominal diseases using real time b-scan technique (author's transl)].
abstract: After a short description of the physical principles of ultrasound, the indications and usefulness of the real time B-scan technique in the non-invasive diagnosis of cardiac and abdominal diseases are discussed. A correct diagnosis was made in 90% of the cardiac cases (valve abnormalities, pericardial effusion, cardiac aneurysm, cardiomyopathy), whereas the diagnosis by ultrasound was correct in only 81.1% of the abdominal cases (diffuse and localized liver diseases, pancreatitis, pancreatic cyst, carcinoma of the pancreas, cholelithiasis, renal cyst, renal tumours, aortic aneurysm). The advantages of the real time B-scan technique lie in the two-dimenstional clear representation of intracardiac and intraabdominal structures with the possibility of undertaking quantitative measurements. Furthermore, it is a non-invasive and safe method, which can be repeated as often as necessary and can complete the diagnositic spectrum of radiology, endoscopy and nuclear medicine.
mesh_terms: D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis; D001018:Aortic Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000175:diagnosis; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D010181:Pancreatic Cyst / Q000175:diagnosis; D010182:Pancreatic Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D014465:Ultrasonics / Q000592:standards*
vernacular_title: Kardiale und abdominelle Ultraschalldiagnostik mittels Real-time-B-Bild-Verfahren.