Assessment of Right Upper Quadrant Pain using Ultrasonography

Abstract

A descriptive cross–sectional and analytical study was carried at Khartoum state hospitals during the period from June to October 2016. This study aims to diagnosis of Sudanese patients with right upper quadrant painusing ultrasound technique. The scanning followed international scanning guide lines and protocol to perform ultra sound. The data analyzed using SPSS. The U.S. findings of Seventy patients with right upper quadrant pain indicate that 18 (36%) were normal, on the other hand 17 (24%) the pain caused by gall bladder disease, most of them 9(52.9%) with gall bladder stones, 5(29.4%) with acute cholycystitis, while mean one (0.05%) with calculus cholycystitis 2(0.12%) with chronic cholycystitis. U.S. Examination of liver found that 11(15.7%) caused by liver disease 5(0.45%) out of them fatty liver one (0.09%) liver cyst, 2 (0.08%) abscess,1(0.09%) cancerand 2(0.08%) hepatitis.U.S examination also found there were 29(41.4%) out of them with right kidney disease most of them 17(58.6%0 with renal stones while 7(24.1%) with hydronephrosis, on the other hand 3(10%) with acute pylo nephritis and among the rest one(3.4%) with renal cyst and one (3.4%) with chronic pylo nephritis, U.s. examination of colon found that 2(2.8%), one(50%) out of them with gases and the other with trauma There was a significant correlation between BMI and liver disease (P≤ 0.05) . This study concluded that ultra sound diagnosis is useful diagnostic technique in determination of causes of right upper quadrant pain.