Al'perovich B I, Merzlikin N V, Iaroshkina T N
Khirurgiia (Mosk). 1991 Apr(4):129-33.
Ultrasonic examination is an effective noninvasive method in the diagnosis of complications in reoperations on the liver. With the application of the method the cavity of disintegration and sequestration were diagnosed in 86% of patients with complicated alveococcosis. Affection of the elements of the porta hepatis and inferior vena cava was revealed in 82% of patients, which was very important in determining the operability of the process and was of essential significance in planning the volume of liver resection. Right pleuritis, the formation of a residual cavity, and sequestration of the parasitic and hepatic tissue are also diagnosed adequately in the postoperative period by means of ultrasonic examination.