QUANTITATIVE SONOGRAPHY METHOD FOR EVALUATING AVAILABILITY OF PERITONITIS IN PATIENTS HAVING ACUTE ILEUS Russian patent published in 2000 - IPC

FIELD: medicine. SUBSTANCE: method involves carrying out ultrasonic examination of intestine to detect acute small intestine ileus. Peritonitis probability is calculated as one based on measured intestine diameter, additional measurements of intestine wall thickness with regard to disease duration, from a formula PP= (D intestine (mm)/disease duration (h) x Tw), where PP is the peritonitis availability probability, D intestine (mm) is the intestine diameter in mm, Tw is the intestine wall thickness in mm. The value being found equal to or less than 9.6, peritonitis probability is determined with quantitative estimation in inverse proportional relation: the less probability value, the higher probability of the peritonitis. EFFECT: high accuracy of diagnosis. 2 tbl