PEDIATRICS Vol. 65 No. 4 April 1980, pp. 789-794
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Sonography in the Diagnosis and Management of Hydrops of the Gallbladder in Children with Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome

Thomas L. Slovis MD1, Donald W. Hight MD1, Arvin I. Philippart MD1, and Reuben S. Dubois MBBS1

1 Departments of Radiology, Surgery, and Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Michigan, and Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit

Acute hydrops of the gallbladder is described in four patients who had mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome. Diagnosis was readily made with grayscale ultrasound, and the patients were followed with this technique. The gallbladder returned to normal size in all of the patients within 15 days, and none of the patients needed surgery. The role of surgery in acute hydrops of the gallbladder is for the complications of the hydrops and not for distension alone.

Submitted on May 10, 1979
Accepted on July 5, 1979




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