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Cholecystosonography in children with sickle cell disease: Technical approach and clinical results

✍ Scribed by Jerome J. Cunningham; Stephen M. Houlihan; C. Altay

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1981
Tongue
English
Weight
476 KB
Volume
9
Category
Article
ISSN
0091-2751

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Forty‐five children with sickle cell anemia were studied with meticulous cholecystosonograms using a 5‐MHz thyroid transducer. Good‐quality images were obtained. The most informative and useful view was the left‐side‐down decubitus study with the ultrasound gantry angled 45% to the anteroposterior axis. Rotating the patient rapidly through 360 degrees did not increase the information content of the examination. We found that one third of a random group of children with sickle cell anemia will have gallstones and one fifth will have β€œsludge”. A kinked deformity of the gallbladder may simulate a gallstone. Neither age, sex, weight, physical findings (except for hepatomegaly), nor a variety of biochemical measurements of the blood will be of much value in predicting gallbladder disease in any given patient.

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