Portable Ultrasound Scanner Versus Serology in Screening for Hydatid Cysts in a Nomadic Population

Overview

Journal Lancet

Publisher Elsevier

Specialty General Medicine

Date 1987 Aug 1

PMID 2886726

Citations 24

Authors

C N Macpherson

T Romig

E Zeyhle

P H Rees

J B Were

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Abstract

3553 nomads in Turkana, a remote area of north-west Kenya, were screened for hydatid cysts by a portable ultrasound scanner and by serology. 198 (5.6%) proved to have liver or upper abdominal cysts. In the group screened by both techniques (2644) 174 (6.6%) cases of hydatidosis were detected by ultrasonography and 76 (2.9%) by serology. Ultrasonography gave immediate results and was less expensive and more acceptable and educationally valuable to the people. This non-invasive rapid technique also provided important clinical information about the cysts. The prevalence data thus obtained will contribute to the surveillance of a hydatid control programme.

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