title: [Study of color scale B-ultrasonography in syndrome differentiation of biliary tract diseases].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the relationship between modern medical detective method of imaging and Syndrome Differentiation of TCM.
  
  
  METHODS
  Two hundred and sixteen biliary tract diseases patients were observed with color scale B-ultrasonography and fat meal tests.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Eighty-four cases (38.89%) of damp-heat type in the Liver-gallbladder among the 216 patients had widened gallbladder, higher tension and weak bile echo-penetration through, 39 cases (18.06%) of type of Liver-Qi stagnation and Spleen deficiency had small transection, hypotension, slender type and low contraction rate, 13 cases (6.02%) of Blood-stasis type had small gallbladder volume and the contraction rate decrease significantly. There were 71 cases (32.87%) of Liver-Qi stagnation type and 9 cases (4.17%) of Liver Yin-Deficiency type, whose characters of the gallbladder were not prominent, so the identification of these cases depended largely on clinical differentiation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study will facilitate the further extending the principle of inspection in the specific organs which may provide us with the objective basis for the differentiation of biliary tract diseases.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002761:Cholangitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005704:Gallbladder / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D008875:Middle Aged; D018615:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color