[Ultrasound examination in patients with peritonitis]

Ultrasonographic features of developed intraabdominal complications were in 73 patients, in 43 of them being local and in 30-diffuse peritonitis. The diagnosis was based on the complex manifestations of' sonographic changes of the small bowel and other organs of the abdominal cavity which the authors suggest to interpret as an ultrasound syndrome of "the bowel deficiency". The possibility of dynamic ultrasound control in postoperative period for registration of the features indicating elimination or progressing of peritonitis is shown.