Evaluation of Diffuse Liver Diseases Using Conventional Ultrasound

The study was aimed to evaluate the diffuse liver diseases by using 2D-conventional ultrasound. A prospective, analytic, and descriptive study of abdominal ultrasound images of 100 subjects with diffuse liver diseases; fatty infiltration, acute hepatitis, chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis. An ultrasound assesses characteristics of the liver including (size, echogenicty, outline and intra hepatic duct), was collected and analyzed. Also cross tabulation was done to assess the relationship between all these variables and diffuse liver diseases. The study found that the liver cirrhosis is higher incidence in diffuse liver diseases representing 40% and more in age group between 31 and 45 years by percentage of 41% of diffuse liver disease, acute viral hepatitis were 31%, chronic hepatitis were 13% and fatty liver 16%.