title: Urgent real-time cholecystosonography in suspected acute cholecystitis.
abstract: Acute cholecystitis was suspected in 60 patients. Correct diagnoses were achieved by urgent real-time cholecystosonography in all the 38 patients that had acute cholecystitis. In about one-third of the other cases sonography revealed the pathological states responsible for the symptoms simulating those of acute cholecystitis. All of the examinations were technically satisfactory.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D002764:Cholecystitis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D014463:Ultrasonography