In northwest China, peritoneal tuberculosis is a common imaging method for peritoneal diseases. Computed tom- WORLD JOURNAL OF SURGICAL ONCOLOGY

Full list of author information is available at the end of the articledisease, yet it remains a big challenge for doctors to make an accurate diagnosis. The conventional examina-tions have a low specificity and a low accuracy for the diagnosis of peritoneal lesions, making it hard to identify its etiopathogenesis, and subsequently give clinical doc-tors many difficulties in treating this disorder. Up to the present, only a few reports on patients with peritoneal ography (CT)-guided percutaneous biopsy is not a real-time operation, and it involves quite a few complicated procedures. Laparoscopy can detect peritoneal lesions and provide biopsies for the different parts of these le-sions while maintaining high diagnostic accuracy. How-ever, laparoscopy involves complex manipulations with many complications and requires anesthesia in an oper-ating room, thus introducing risk for the patient. For these reasons, laparoscopy is still not a very popular choice in this situation. Ultrasonography is an ideal method for imaging and for * Correspondence