High-frequency ultrasonic manifestations of abdominal tuberculosis in children / 中国介入影像与治疗学

ABSTRACT

Objective: To observe the high-frequency ultrasonic manifestations of abdominal tuberculosis in children. Methods: High-frequency ultrasonic findings of 26 children aged from 28 days to 16 years with abdominal tuberculosis were retrospectively analyzed. Results: High-frequency ultrasound detected extensive bowel wall thickening and parietal peritoneal inhomogeneity thickening in 20 and 24 cases, respectively. Fifteen cases were found with abdominal cavity and retroperitoneal lymph nodes enlargement, 10 with multiple cystic masses with poor sound transmission, 2 with liver and spleen enlargement, 2 with single kidney volume increase, 8 with large amount peritoneal effusion, 4 with moderate and 14 with small amount of peritoneal effusion. No special audio-visual change of pancreas was observed. Conclusion: Abdominal tuberculosis in children mainly present proliferation and caseous lesions, which have high-frequency ultrasonic manifestations with certain specificities being helpful to early diagnosis.