Ultrasound characteristics of abdominal abscesses involving foreign bodies (gauze)

✍ Scribed by Kaoru Sekiba; Nobuo Akamatsu; Kuniyasu Niwa

• Book ID: 102328392
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 310 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0091-2751
• DOI: 10.1002/jcu.1870070409

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Three cases of abdominal abscesses involving gauze were studied by B‐mode ultrasound. Thick irregular boundary echoes and irregular internal echoes of high amplitude were most characteristic. The ultrasound tomograms are presented, and their characteristics are discussed.