[Sonography of the abdomen as a screening method].
Abdominal ultrasonic screening of patients clinically asymptomatic of abdominal disease was performed in 5 720 subjects. In these asymptomatic persons pathological ultrasonic findings were reported in 47.1% of all cases, but these were mostly without clinical relevance. This is especially true for diffuse liver disease (30.9%), asymptomatic gallstones (6.1%), and typical renal cysts (5.7%). Asymptomatic malignant abdominal tumours (0.2% or 13 cases) were detected very rarely, and were found to be mostly renal carcinomas.
D000005:Abdomen; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001012:Aorta, Abdominal; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000175:diagnosis; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000175:diagnosis; D003560:Cysts / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D052177:Kidney Diseases, Cystic / Q000175:diagnosis; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D008875:Middle Aged; D014463:Ultrasonography
Sonographie des Abdomens als Screeningmethode.