title: [Ultrasound diagnostics of jaundice].
abstract: Ultrasound enables to diagnose jaundice resulted from obturation at some level of bile-ducts in 92,2% of patients with jaundice of the origin by detecting the widening of bile duct system. Ultrasound helps in 95,3% detecting outhepatic obturation of bile ducts, in 72,6% - the cause of the disease. Having this technique as high informative and harmless one can use it to screen patients with jaundice.
authors: I M
authors: IM
authors: Les'kiv
authors: H S
authors: HS
authors: Moroz
authors: D S
authors: DS
authors: Mechev
mesh_terms: D001659:Biliary Tract / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D007565:Jaundice / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D008099:Liver / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014463:Ultrasonography