[Ultrasound diagnostics of jaundice].

Ultrasound enables to diagnose jaundice resulted from obturation at some level of bile-ducts in 92,2% of patients with jaundice of the origin by detecting the widening of bile duct system. Ultrasound helps in 95,3% detecting outhepatic obturation of bile ducts, in 72,6% - the cause of the disease. Having this technique as high informative and harmless one can use it to screen patients with jaundice.

[The diagnostic value of determining the level of the carbohydrate antigen 19-9 in pancreatic cancer].

By means of a radioimmunologic method, the serum level of carbohydrate antigen (CA) 19-9 was measured in 96 patients, including 17 with pancreatic cancer, 35--with inflammatory diseases of the pancreas, 44--with cancer of another location. CA 19-9 level in patients with pancreatic cancer was considerably higher than in patients with other diseases and controls.