[Ultrasonic diagnosis of benign diseases of the gallbladder]

The authors discuss experience in ultrasonic examination (USE) of the biliary tract in 1,068 patients with various benign diseases of the gallbladder; 536 of them were treated by surgery. It is shown that USE is a highly informative and authentic method in the diagnosis of benign diseases of the gallbladder. The article deals with the USE semeiotics of acute destructive cholecystitis, its complications, as well as chronic calculous cholecystitis and various benign acalculous diseases of the gallbladder. Among the existing methods of examination of the biliary tract, the authors claim USE to be most important and the main method in patients with benign diseases of the gallbladder of acalculous genesis.