[Use of the ultrasound investigation after operations on the thoracic cavity in children].
The author describes the experience with using ultrasound investigation (USI) for detection of complications and dynamic control of the state of organs of the thoracic cavity in the postoperative period in 174 children aged from 2 days to 14 years. The findings of USI were used to determine the strategy of treatment in the postoperative period: expedience of pleural puncture, repeated thoracoscopic sanitation for empyema of the pleura etc. In 3 children hematoma was revealed in the bed of the ablated tumor of the mediastinum, in 1 case--pneumothorax after lung hydatidectomy, in 1 infant after operation a recurrent diaphragmatic hernia was revealed by USI. Thus, echography is thought to be an informative harmless method of diagnosis of complications after operations on the thoracic cavity in children allowing to successfully control the state of the pleural cavity, lungs, and mediastinum and to determine the rational strategy of treatment.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D012737:Sex Factors; D019616:Thoracic Surgical Procedures; D013906:Thoracoscopy; D013909:Thorax / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013997:Time Factors; D014463:Ultrasonography