THE ECHOGRAPHICAL EXAMINATION IN CHILD CHOLESTATIC SYNDROME

The sonographical exploration of the child cholestatical jaundice brings its real contribution to diagnosis when the children's age and pathology particularities are taken into account by the sonographer. The patients group with cholestatical syndrome taken into study is significant (20 cases) and the diagnostical criteria (clinical examination and laboratory tests) are scientifically and accurate argued. The abdominal echographical examination completed with the Doppler techniques of pulsatory emission and colour codified, made sensitively evident specifical pediatrical diseases such as: bile cyst stone, bile cyst hydrops, cholestatical chronic hepatitis, biliary atresia, choledochocyst etc. Through the supplied informations, the ultrasonography has become the essential method for the child hepatic disease, allowing in the same time the dynamical supervision of the existing pathological elements. The Doppler techniques have a remarkable contribution and prove a very high accuracy in the etiological diagnosis of the cholestatic syndrome in Pediatrics.