Echographic signs of biliary atresia
Tarasiuk, B.A.; Iaremenko, V.V.; Babko, S.A.; Klimenko, E.F.; Medvedenko, G.F.
Klinichna Khirurhiia 10: 20-21
2004
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-2130 PMID: 15628232 Document Number: 580240
The assessment of echographic features of biliary atresia was conducted in 65 newborn children ageing up to 3 mo. Their characteristic variants were revealed: the absence or reduction in size of gall-bladder, the presence of hyperechogenic triangular formation in V. portae bifurcation (the symptom of "triangular cicatrix"); the thickening of anterior wall of V. portae right branch. The timely and correct establishment of the diagnosis permits a child to survive and serve the hepatic fibrosis prophylaxis. Echohepatography is a sufficiently trustful method of investigation.