Gray-scale ultrasonography and jaundice.
Forty-nine consecutive jaundiced patients were examined with ultrasonography as the initial imaging method. In 90% could surgical and medical jaundice be differentiated and in 51% the correct specific diagnosis reached.
D014670:Ampulla of Vater; D002761:Cholangitis / Q000175:diagnosis; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000175:diagnosis; D002779:Cholestasis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001651:Cholestasis, Extrahepatic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003138:Common Bile Duct Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D042882:Gallstones / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary; D008722:Methods; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D014463:Ultrasonography