Diagnosis and therapeutic punctures of abdominal organs under ultrasound control

Data on 32 diagnostic punctures of the liver, pancreas and spleen under ultrasonographic US control are available. False diagnosis was registered in 1 case. 16 curative procedures under US control were carried out in patients with hepatic abscesses (7), suppurative pseudocysts of the pancreas (4), abscesses of the abdominal cavity (5); in 4 patients external drainage extrahepatic bile ducts was carried out. This method, being not much traumatic, produces good results in definite group of surgical patients.