Clinical value of the color Doppler in diagnosing of the abdominal wall endometriosis

Objective:Analysis two-dimensional ultrasonography and the performance of color Doppler ultrasound from 25 patients who were diagnosed abdominal wall endometriosis by operation and abdominal wall nodules puncture.Methods: 24 patients were found nodules or swellings in different layers of abdominal wall. Results:The deepest nodules can reach the intraperitoneal omentum. One of the nodules from the patient about 20 mm from the top of the cut,the size of the swelling between 9～51 mm, it is irregular, and burr-like edges or pseudopodium-like, there are not homogeneous echo inside, honeycomb-like structure appears in menstrual period, most of them has attenuation. According to the showing of color Doppler ultrasound, there are spotted or short strips biood-leaving signals beyond or inside the nodules in 19 cases, artery spectrum showed high resistance to low speed. There is ovarian endometrioma in five cases. Conclusion:Color Doppler ultrasound can find out if the symptom of abdominal wall endometriosis has had the characteristic changes, it has very important clinical value to diagnose this disease by combining the history and clinical manifestations, it can also help cure the clinical lesions.