ULTRASONIC METHOD OF QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE LIVER PARENCHYMA IN HEALTHY CHILDREN
Nnovative technologies of an assessment of structure of a parenchyma - data of fibroelastometry (FEM) and a quantitative assessment of structure of a liver parenchyma such as Acoustic Structure Quantification (ASQ) in 30 conditionally healthy children at the age from 2 months till 18 years are presented. According to FEM in all healthy children speed of distribution of a wave in a normal liver tissue in the average amounted 1,1 m/s, in that tissue elasticity corresponded ~ 3 kPa. The density index according to ASQ in each segment of a liver in healthy children amounted 0,99±0,11 relative value unit and didn't depend on age and a gender of children. Non invasiveness and informativity allow to use ASQ in clinical practice as screening test for a quantitative assessment of a liver parenchyma for identification of fibrosis stage in chronic forms of liver pathology and in dispensary observations in the conditions of policlinic.