[Prospects of echocardiography in the diagnosis of acute cholecystitis]

The article gives a critical estimation of the value of different ultrasonic symptoms in diagnosis of acute cholecystitis. The echographic picture was established to depend on the degree of morphological alterations of the gallbladder wall. Most frequent signs were found. Echography is thought by the authors to occupy the leading place both in diagnostics of acute cholecystitis and in choice of treatment methods for the given disease.