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Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 19, No. 9, 591-596 (1980)
DOI: 10.1177/000992288001900903

The Role of Sonography in Evaluating Right Upper Quadrant Disease in Children

A Clinical Report

Anita P. Friedman

From the Department of Radiology, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203

Thomas L. Slovis

Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, Michigan 48201

Jack O. Haller

From the Department of Radiology, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203

D.P. Lebensart

From the Department of Radiology, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203

Since 1974, grey scale sonography has been used with increasing frequency in evaluating abdominal masses in children. Because sonography is nonin vasive and does not involve ionizing radiation, it is of particular value in the evaluation of pediatric patients. This paper focuses on right upper quadrant masses in children. The liver and gallbladder have been easy to image sonographically. It should be noted that sonography cannot accurately differ entiate between benign and malignant lesions. The pancreas, previously a difficult organ to appreciate radiographically, can be visualized with both ultrasound and computerized tomography. Both history and physical examina tion are important to the sonographic evaluation of masses in children.


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