title: [Echography in the differential diagnosis of mechanical and parenchymatous jaundice].
abstract: The authors have examined 280 patients with the syndrome of jaundice and bilirubinemia of more than 21 mumol/l in order to establish echographic differential diagnostic criteria of mechanical and parenchymatous jaundice. The method of echography enabled the correct type of jaundice to be established in 97% of cases, in 73.8%--the level, length and origin of obstruction. The data presented allow to recommend echography as the method of choice in differential diagnosis of diseases accompanied by jaundice.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002760:Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde; D001651:Cholestasis, Extrahepatic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D002780:Cholestasis, Intrahepatic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006505:Hepatitis / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008875:Middle Aged; D010182:Pancreatic Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D014463:Ultrasonography
vernacular_title: Ekhografiia v differentsial'noĭ diagnostike mekhanicheskoĭ i parenkhimatoznoĭ zheltukhi.