Abstract:
Jaundice is a group of signs and symptoms that appear on a patient as a
result of different causes, which result in different types (hepatocellular,
heamolytic,and obstructive ).
The data were collected from scanning patients in U/S department of
Bahri Teaching Hospital in period of January 2012 to April 2012.
Sample of fifty patients with jaundice, males and females between 13-71 age
groups were chosen.
All patients were scanned with TOSHIPA ultrasound machine 3.5-5MHZ
curvilinear transducer.
The researcher found that the number of the female are 34 compare with
16 males, that mean the average of male is 32% from the total sample compare
with 68% for female, thus mean the women are more effected than men and in
age group 19-71, hemolytic jaundice is more prevalence (80%) than other type
of jaundice (hepatocellular jaundice 10% and obstructive jaundice is 10%.
