Ultrasound study in the diagnosis of colon obstruction

The authors present the results of their investigations into the use of routine transabdominal sonography and ultrasound irrigoscopy in the diagnosis of acute colon obstruction in 70 patients. In 55 patients, the cause of this pathology was tumor-induced obturation of colon lumen and in 15 cases, the pathology resulted from colon evacuation dysfunction due to congenital abnormalities, acquired stenosis due to inflammatory diseases. Ultrasound irrigoscopy was first applied to determine the presence and degree of colon obstruction and to establish its causes. The procedure and semiotics of ultrasound irrigoscopy and routine transabdominal sonography for this abnormality have been developed and are described in detail. Analysis of the findings has demonstrated that ultrasound irrigoscopy used in the diagnosis of acute colon obstruction is on a par with X-ray irrigoscopy in its informative value and may be widely employed in the used arsenal of diagnostic techniques.     

A role and a place of ultrasound diagnosis of acute ileus

The main purpose of the authors is to present their view of a place of present-day ultrasonography in the diagnosis of acute small and large intestinal obstruction. A comparatively sizable material covering 218 verified cases of acute ileus, including 77 patients with large intestinal obstruction and 141 patients with impaired passage of the intestinal contents along the small bowel was used to outline the aspects of ultrasound techniques and the symptomatology of ileus, by differentiating its some types. Along with the general assessment of the methodological and semiotic aspects of ultrasound diagnosis of acute uleus, the authors emphasizes a role of sonography in the detection of large intestinal obstruction by outlining their modified procedure of ultrasound irrigoscopy. For greater objectivization of their positive assessment of the place of ultrasound in the diagnosis of acute ileus and large intestinal obstruction, the authors comparatively studied X-ray and ultrasound studies to reveal this pathology. In addition to their purely personal assessment of a role of ultrasound in the diagnosis of large intestinal obstruction, the lecture also shows its authors' opinion as to the organizational issues associated with the necessity of correcting the existing diagnostic algorithm to detect large intestinal obstruction.     

Possibilities of ultrasonography in the differential diagnosis of strangulation and obturation forms of commissural small intestine ileus

The main aim of this paper, by the authors' intention, was to attempt to study and provide evidence for that routine transabdominal sonography has great capacities in diagnosing small intestinal strangulation and obstruction ileus caused by commissures or tumors. The data of 48 cases of small intestinal ileus (27 of its strangulation form and 21 of its obturation one) were analyzed. The paper details guidelines on ultrasonographic techniques and the ultrasound semiotics of this pathology. It is the first time that the authors give individual methodological and semiotic approaches at sonography in this group of papers. They present a particularly clinical picture in combination with ultrasonographic data by providing their constant comparison, which serves as an additional support of the results of this paper. In the authors' opinion, the findings suggest that transabdominal sonography may be a successful basic diagnostic technique for strangulation and obturation forms of small intestinal ileus.     

Capacities of transabdominal ultrasound study in the diagnosis of polyps of the stomach and colon

The data obtained from studies of 84 patients with polyps of the stomach and colonic were used to consider the capacities of transabdominal and transrectal ultrasound studies and their diagnostic efficiency in the diagnosis of polyps of the stomach and colon. The ultrasound semiotics of polyps of the gastric and colon was described. A place of transabdominal ultrasound sonography (US) in the algorithm of radiation and endoscopic studies was established. This investigation led to the conclusion that transabdominal US, along with indirect diagnosis, permits solution of number of fundamental problems facing prior to polypectomy--these are primarily to define the nature of a detected polyp (epithelial and non-epithelial), based on an analysis of the laminar structure of the wall of an organ at the polyp base, a possible polyp malignancy and the degree of invasion into the depths of the gastric wall, as well as to detect a feeding vessel (in the CDC mode) and to predict the likelihood of possible complications. It is advisable to use transabdominal US in a complex of diagnostic techniques for polyps of the stomach and colon.     

Ultrasound study in colonic diverticular microperforation

This paper deals with the results of ultrasound (US) study in 34 patients with a history of colonic diverticulosis, who have been admitted to hospital for the clinical manifestations of diverticular microperforation. Diverticulosis was verified by X-ray irrigoscopy in 15 patients, by oral contrast-enhanced computed tomography in 6, and by colonoscopy in 18. Analysis of US findings revealed the major US syndromes of colonic diverticular microperforation, namely a change in the intestinal wall as its thickening and lower echogenicity, as well as perifocal infiltration and local accumulation of free fluid outside the altered bowel.     

Use of modified irrigoradioscopy in the diagnosis of external and internal rectal prolapse

The paper gives colonic X-ray findings in 39 patients with rectal prolapse. Of them, 20 and 19 patients were found to have internal and external rectal prolapse, respectively. Studies were conducted by the modified irrigoscopy developed by the State Coloproctology Research Center, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, to explore the anatomic and functional status of the rectum and the fundus of the pelvis in patients with impaired defecation. The X-ray sign of circular invagination that had been detected by the authors allowed them to make the diagnosis of internal rectal prolapse with the greatest assurance. The modified irrigoscopy in combination with oral enterography for external rectal prolapse could show associated changes, including enterocele and sigmocele.     

Potentialities of transabdominal ultrasound study in the diagnosis of gastric peptic ulcer

The results of examination in 44 patients with gastric peptic ulcer were used to consider the potentialities of a transabdominal ultrasound study in the diagnosis and monitoring of gastric ulcerations. The ultrasound semiotics of gastric ulcers is described in the paper. A role of transabdominal ultrasound study in the algorithm of radiation and instrumental studies of gastric ulcer is defined. The inclusion of this study into the algorithm of diagnosis and monitoring of gastric peptic ulcer will make it possible not only to diagnose gastric ulcerations better, but to follow up their cicatrization. It is expedient to include a transabdominal ultrasound study as one of the diagnostic techniques for gastric peptic ulcer.     

Possibilities of CT and US in the diagnosis of colonic cancer

The data of examination of 59 patients with colonic cancer were used to consider the potentialities of transabdominal, transrectal ultrasonography and X-ray computed tomography and to assess their value in diagnosing colonic cancer, including its "minor" forms. The paper describes the ultrasound and computed tomographic semiotics of colonic cancer and determines a place of the above techniques in the algorithm of radiation and instrumental studies. Inclusion of these techniques into the diagnostic algorithm may solve a range of differentially diagnostic problems and allows a preliminary analysis to be made in a tumor lesion according to the International TNM classification. Ultrasonography and X-ray computed tomography should be included into a range of basic methods for diagnosis of colonic cancer.     

Capacities of ultrasound study in the diagnosis of diffuse gastric carcinoma

By using 237 verified cases of diffuse carcinoma and benign diseases of the stomach as an example, the authors assess the capacities of routine transabdominal ultrasound study (USS) of the stomach in the diagnosis of tumors and present their modification of the procedure facilitating the imaging of problem areas. In the authors' opinion, the symptoms of thickening of the wall of the stomach and abnormalities in its normal five-layered structure indicate diffuse gastric carcinoma. The authors consider USS to be a supplement to the basic diagnostic techniques--X-ray study and gastroscopy.     

阴道彩超对宫角妊娠的诊断运用评价

目的：探究阴道彩超对宫角妊娠的诊断价值,为宫角妊娠的临床诊断提出有效方法。方法：对我院2010年4月～2013年4月收治的80例初诊宫角妊娠患者进行回顾性分析,对比其经腹彩超和经阴道彩超的的诊断结果与术后病理确诊差异。结果：阴道彩超下宫角妊娠共分三种表现,包括胚囊型、包块型和破裂型;阴道彩超显示,所有初诊宫角妊娠患者均可见孕囊与子宫内膜相连,其肌层厚度在7．5-11.3mm间,平均（10．5±1．7）mm;二次检查中,经腹超声确诊59例宫角妊娠,经阴道超声确诊51例,病理诊断共确诊宫角妊娠48例。经腹超声诊断准确率为81．4％,明显低于经阴道超声的94．1％,两组数据对比存在显著统计学差异。经腹超声两次检查符合率为73．8％,显著低于经阴道超声的96．2％,两组数据对比存在显著统计学差异。结论：阴道彩超较经腹彩超对宫角妊娠具有更高的诊断准确率,通过图像判断,能够有效对宫角妊娠、输卵菅间质部妊娠进行有效鉴别诊断,可作为指导临床早期干预方案、制定跟踪随访措施的关键依据。     

X-ray-ultrasonic parallels in tumors of the stomach and intestines]

Combined clinical, radio and ultrasound investigation of 46 patients was carried out. It was shown that routine transabdominal UTS could be employed in diagnosis of gastric and intestinal tumors but mainly at more advanced stages (T3, T4). Potentialities of the method were shown to depend, to a great extent, on a tumor site, growth, type, sizes, and spreading, as well as on the resolving power of an US diagnostic apparatus. The use of a high resolution apparatus made it possible to detect tumor invasion, but topography of a tumor was difficult to define. The x-ray or endoscopic method can be used as an adjuvant method of specified diagnosis of gastric and intestinal tumors.     

Some problems of radiation diagnosis of colon cancer

The paper gives the view of the author who is based on his many-year experience in studying a role of radiation diagnosis of colon cancer. It shows it necessary to enhance the significance of radiation diagnosis. More attention should be given to the traditional section on the current radiation study of the large bowel: to irrigoscopy and single double contrasting. By taking into account the labor-consumption of irrigoscopy, the author suggests that the procedure should be simplified without losing its diagnostic capacities. However, he considers single double contrasting of the bowel to be the optimum technique of traditional X-ray study of the bowel in detecting its tumors. Pneumocolonoscopy and iliocecal node study of the ileocecal angle are given in the paper as supplementary techniques of traditional X-ray study of the large bowel. Emphasis is also placed on the role of radiation diagnostic techniques, such as ultrasound diagnosis, X-ray computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging. By highly appreciating their significance in the diagnosis of colon cancer, the author believes that they should play a role of important, but additional ways of detecting this pathology. By pointing out the excellent capacities of fibrocolonoscopy, as applied to the problem discussed in the paper, the author does emphasize the certain limitations of this technique, by taking into account that its application can cause some complications. The author's opinion that the obvious increase in the incidence of endophytic carcinomas drastically enhances the role of their radiation diagnosis, but by obligatorily correcting currently available principal methodic and semiotic directives, runs through the entire paper.     

阴道超声与宫腔镜诊断对围绝经期女性异常子宫出血病因的研究对比

目的:研究阴道超声与宫腔镜诊断对围绝经期女性异常子宫出血(Abnormal uterine bleeding,AUB)病因的对比。方法:从2012年3月到2013年3月,我院共有123例围绝经期AUB患者需行手术治疗。全部患者均于术前实施阴道超声检查及宫腔镜检查,分别归入阴道超声组及宫腔镜组,并于术后常规实施病理确诊,并将所得结果作为金标准分别对比。结果:根据术后的病理检查,最终确定患者子宫内膜为正常者4例,内膜增生44例,内膜息肉29例,黏膜下肌瘤26例,内膜癌20例。宫腔镜组在内膜增生及内膜息肉方面的诊断结果与病理检查结果最为接近,诊断结果显著优于阴道超声组,差异均有统计学意义(均P0.05)。但两组在正常内膜、黏膜下肌瘤以及内膜癌等方面的诊断结果对比,差异均无统计学意义(均P0.05)。宫腔镜组与病理检查的符合率在黏膜下肌瘤及内膜癌方面较阴道超声组与病理检查结果的符合率更高,但差异无统计学意义(P0.05)。尤其是关于内膜增生和内膜息肉的符合率,宫腔镜组显著高于阴道超声组,差异有统计学意义(均P0.05)。结论:宫腔镜诊断方案对于围绝经期女性AUB患者的诊断结果更接近于病理结果,但临床在一定条件可与阴道超声联用,以期进一步提升诊断符合率。值得临床推荐。     

产前经腹灰阶联合彩色血流超声多参数对胎盘植入性疾病的诊断效能研究

摘要 目的：探究产前经腹灰阶联合彩色血流超声多参数对胎盘植入性疾病的诊断效能。方法：2019年11月-2021年12月于我院收治的产前超声诊断为前置胎盘的孕妇共计62例,其中44例超声诊断合并了胎盘植入的孕妇。所有孕妇产前均进行经腹灰阶检查、经腹彩色超声检查和二者联合检查胎盘植入性疾病,通过分析胎盘植入性疾病筛查结果,评价产前超声经腹灰阶联合彩色血流超声多参数对胎盘植入性疾病的筛查效能。结果：（1）通过灰阶超声诊断检出胎盘植入的灵敏度为73.42 %,特异度为86.54 %;（2）通过彩色超声诊断检出胎盘植入的灵敏度为76.89%,特异度为89.07 %;（3）经腹灰阶联合彩色血流超声多参数诊断检出胎盘植入的灵敏度为87.79 %,特异度为90.36 %;（4）经腹灰阶检查、经腹彩色超声检查和二者联合检查对胎盘植入性疾病筛查阳性率分别为56.45 %、62.90 %和67.74 %,二者联合检查对产前胎盘植入性疾病筛查阳性率显著高于经腹灰阶检查和经腹彩色超声检查（P<0.05）。（5）二者联合检查的敏感度为72.26 %,特异度为90.54 %,阳性比为95.55 %,诊断比值比为78.89 %。结论：产前经腹灰阶联合彩色血流超声多参数对胎盘植入性疾病的诊断有较高的灵敏度和特异度,值得临床推广应用。     

Potentialities of ultrasound and computed tomography in the diagnosis of metastases of lung cancer in the mediastinal lymph nodes]

The results of routine roentgenotomography, CT and USI in the diagnosis of intrathoracic metastases of lung cancer were compared in 69 patients (central type--52, peripheral--17). These results were compared with operative findings in 45 patients. The sensitivity of USI in the diagnosis of enlarged paravasal lymph nodes exceeded that of roentgenotomography and was slightly inferior to CT. CT was informative for all mediastinal lymph nodes whereas tomography and USI were informative in certain areas only. The authors recommend to combine the use of routine and ultrasound tomography to assess the spreading of lung cancer to the mediastinum. The information obtained increases the accuracy of staging and specifying a process, slightly yielding CT results.     

X-ray method for examination of patients with obstructive diseases of the large bowel

The paper presents a new priority X-ray method for examining the large bowel in patients with strictures. It is based on the principle of one-stage double contrasting, that has been substantially modified and supplemented by some distinctive signs and original methodological techniques. A randomized study of 150 patients with stenotic tumors of the distal colon assessed this method in comparison to traditional irrigoscopy and classical double contrasting. The study provided strong evidence for the advantage of the proposed method over the well-known ones. In the presence of stenosis, this method makes it possible to completely examine all the portions of the large bowel in 90% of the cases, to reduce the time of examination by almost 15 minutes and a radiation load per patient by 4 m3v. When the method is applied, the informative value of X-ray characteristics of a colonic stricture maximally retains. This is of great value in examining the category of patients with obstructive diseases of the large bowel, which presents a problem in making a differential diagnosis.     

Potentialities of modern clinical X-ray radiology in the differential diagnosis of tumor and other obstructive diseases of the large bowel

The misdiagnosis rate in defining the cause of obstructive colonic disease is 8.2-24.4%. This is consistent with the fact that every 5 patients with colonic obstruction present difficulties in establishing the nature of a pathological process. The paper provides the results of analysis of clinical and X-ray symptoms in 350 patients with difficult differentially diagnosed cases of narrowing of the rectum and colon. Based on the analysis, the authors identified the basically important X-ray signs that might differentiate tumor stenoses from other obstructive diseases. They also defined the specific X-ray signs of such diseases as infiltrative cancer; extraintestinal cancer involved in the large bowel; inflammatory strictures in ulcerative colitis, diverticulosis, actinomycosis, tuberculosis, intestinal endometriosis, invagination, and other obstructive diseases. The developed differentiated diagnostic criteria could enhance the overall accuracy of X-ray study in this difficult group of patients from 72.7-80% to 93%.     

Exfoliative colonic cytology. A simplified method of collection and initial results

Exfoliative colonic cytology for the diagnosis of colorectal cancer has been largely abandoned due to (1) the widespread use of colonoscopy, (2) the cumbersome methods of cell collection and (3) the occasional difficulty of interpreting the cytologic findings in the presence of inflammatory bowel disease or adenomas. This paper describes a newly formulated bowel preparation for routine colonoscopy, based on imbibing 2 L to 4 L of a balanced electrolyte solution, in which the recovered precolonoscopic effluent (using a convenient disposable collecting kit) yielded cells for cytologic evaluation from 70% of a group of 80 patients at high risk for large bowel neoplasia. Cytology demonstrated neoplastic cells in most cases of endoscopically proven cancer. These results suggest that colonic exfoliative cytology may be useful as a supplemental test to routine colonoscopy. This could be enhanced by further methodologic modifications to the collecting and cytologic methods; large long-term studies are needed to evaluate the potential usefulness of colonic exfoliative cytology.     

Congenital aganglionic megacolon

Twenty-one pull-through procedures for congenital aganglionic megacolon (Hirschsprung's disease) have been performed at the Los Angeles Children's Hospital since the adoption of the etiological concept of a distal aganglionic segment in 1949. In 14 cases the Swenson procedure as modified by Hiatt was employed, with perineal excision of the colon segment. There were four postoperative deaths and three symptomatic recurrences in this group. Three patients were treated by transabdominal resection of colon and rectum with subsequent pull-through reconstruction (Swenson). Anterior resection (State) was carried out in two cases. Three children with recurrence of symptoms following primary operation were subjected to a secondary pull-through procedure with an eventual successful outcome. The major portion of the postoperative mortality (29 per cent) in this group occurred in infants less than six months of age in whom anastomotic disruption or proximal segment infarction occurred after operation.A study of 31 cases of congenital aganglionic megacolon in very young infants drew attention to the difficulty of establishing a diagnosis in this age group even at exploratory laparotomy. Among these infants the mortality rate was excessive, regardless of the form of therapy employed. Colostomy appeared to be the indicated surgical procedure if a conservative regimen failed to control intractable colonic obstruction during the first year of life.     

Histidine decarboxylase is identified as a potential biomarker of intestinal mucosal injury in patients with acute intestinal obstruction

Various biomarkers currently used for the diagnosis of intestinal mucosal injury (IMI) in patients with acute intestinal obstruction have low sensitivity and specificity. In the present study, IMI, as indicated by the impaired expression of tight junction proteins, including zonula occludens-1, occludin and claudin-1, and inflammation were determined in colonic tissues of patients with 45 strangulated intestinal obstruction (STR-IO) and the adjacent "normal" colonic tissues of 35 patients with colon cancers by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (QRT-PCR), Western blotting, immunohistochemistry and histological examination, respectively. Then, two-dimensional fluorescent difference gel electrophoresis coupled with linear trap quadrupole mass spectrometry was used to screen for potential biomarkers of IMI in the serum samples of 10 STR-IO, 10 simple intestinal obstruction (SIM-IO) and 10 normal healthy controls. A total of 35 protein spots were differentially expressed among the serum samples, and six of the proteins were identified as potential biomarkers. Among the six proteins, histidine decarboxylase (HDC) and ceruloplasmin (CP) were elevated significantly in patients with STR-IO, compared with patients with SIM-IO and healthy controls. Thus, HDC and CP were further validated by QRT-PCR, Western blotting, immunohistochemistry and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, respectively, in colonic tissues, serum and urine samples. Finally, the receiver operating characteristic curves were used to show the area under the curves of HDC, CP and several established biomarkers, followed by the determination of the appropriate cutoff values and their sensitivities and specificities. It was shown that for serum and urine, HDC levels achieved sensitivities and specificities compatible to or even greater than those of established biomarkers for the diagnosis of IMI in patients with acute intestinal obstruction, although further validation in a larger cohort is required.