[Ultrasonic evaluation of the course of the wound process after cholecystectomy]

The authors conducted 101 ultrasonic studies in patients in the early period after cholecystectomy. They studied the ultrasonic semeiotics of the course of the wound process in the zone of the operation. Three types of an uncomplicated course of the wound process in the zone of the operation were determined. An image of the sutured site of the gallbladder with no additional structures in the subhepatic space was encountered in most cases (variant I). In other cases (variants II and III) areas indicative of the accumulation of fluid in the subhepatic space and in the projection of the gallbladder site were visualized. This calls for a case follow-up and, in some cases, for preventive treatment.