Abstract:
This study carried out in soba university hospital in Khartoum state
which is equipped by high quality ultrasound machine type Aloka SSD
3500 with high frequency transducer 7.5 MHz.
A total of 50 patients were recruited for this study all of them suffer
from the foot mycetoma. Their ages between (8-55) years and most of
them were undergone routine plain x-ray.
The study verified that the ultrasound examination of foot mycetoma is
simple, reproducible, and low cost and not need special technique like
other examinations.
The ultrasound examination is able to diagnose the foot mycetoma and
differentiate its types fungal and bacterial with high accuracy. The main
findings of this study show the foot mycetoma more common in males
(72%) than females (28%), Most common affected age between 24-31
(34%) and also between 32-39 (20%), the most common area in Sudanis
the Aljazeera state (57%) of all cases and the fungal type (80%) more
common than bacterial type (20%).
