Ultrasound diagnostic method displaying body marks each of which indicates an examination position by the ultrasound probe

An ultrasound diagnostic method utilizing an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus including an ultrasound probe, comprising:

• performing an instruction signal input, using an operating unit of the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, by an operator,
• displaying, in response to the instruction input signal operation by the operator, a plurality of first body marks on a first touch panel display screen at a time, each of the first body marks being different from each other in a body pattern which is a patterning of a body part seen in a predetermined direction, and being further superimposed on by a probe mark which indicates a position and a direction on the body pattern which the ultrasound probe is put,
• displaying, in response to the operator selecting, using the first touch panel display screen, one body mark from among the plurality of the first body marks a series of second body marks corresponding to a series of examinations relating to ultrasound diagnosis in an order of time on the first touch panel display screen, each of the second body marks relating to the selected first body mark, and the body patterns of the second body marks being the same for each other in the body pattern of the selected first body mark and being different, from each other in the position and the direction indicated by the probe mark,
• highlighting, by a controller of the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, the second body mark corresponding to an examination being currently executed, and
• displaying a body mark corresponding to the highlighted second body mark together with die ultrasound image corresponding to the examination being currently executed on a second display screen different from the first display screen.