Grey-scale ultrasonography in cholestatic jaundice.
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Grey-scale ultrasonography in cholestatic jaundice.
Grey-scale ultrasonography was performed without access to detailed clinical information in a prospective study of 55 jaundiced patients. Forty-one were eventually proved to have an extrahepatic obstructive cause, and 14 had intrahepatic "medical" disease. Satisfactory ultrasound images were obtained in 54 patients, and the bile duct calibre was correctly reported in 53 (96%). All 14 medical ca...
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عنوان ژورنال: Gut
سال: 1979
ISSN: 0017-5749
DOI: 10.1136/gut.20.1.51